2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Scoresby · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Scoresby
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are much more common in Scoresby than in most similar areas. This is a place where few people live alone, with the typical home holding 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Scoresby — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 17.4% of people here live alone, a figure well below the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why homes are larger, with 28.3% of households containing two people and another 43.1% holding three or four.
17.4% ▲ +20.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Scoresby, the largest group is 2 people at 28%, followed by 3 people (22%) and 4 people (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up the bulk of the area at 65.7%. One-parent families account for 12.7% of the total, which is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the Victorian average.
12.7% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Scoresby, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Scoresby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22242/scoresby/topic/family-households