2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sebastopol · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Thirty-eight per cent of homes in Sebastopol are lived in by just one person, which is far more than the national figure. This high number of single-person households means the area has much smaller homes on average than most other places.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Sebastopol — lower than 81% of areas.
Average household size.
The typical home in Sebastopol has 2.1 people, a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. This is driven by a very high proportion of people living alone, which is far above the state average.
2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
38.2% ▲ +8.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Sebastopol splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 27.5% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average and among the highest for similar areas.
27.5% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Sebastopol, the largest group is Couples with children at 42%, followed by Couples without children (29%) and One-parent families (28%).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Sebastopol [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22255/sebastopol/topic/family-households