2.1 ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sandy Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sandy Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Sandy Point, where a third of homes are occupied by people living alone. This contributes to a typical home size of just 2.1 people, which is lower than most other areas in the country.
2.1
▲ +5.0%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Sandy Point — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 33.6% of people here live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. Two-person households are the most common at 40.3%, meaning most homes are smaller than the Victorian typical of 2.5 people.
33.6% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sandy Point, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 46.2%, followed closely by those with children at 45.7%. Only 7.6% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
7.6% ▲ +117.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Sandy Point splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (46%) and Couples with children (45%), with One-parent families at 8%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Sandy Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22236/sandy-point/topic/family-households