2.9 ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Selby · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Selby
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly three people per home make Selby a place where larger households are common. This is much higher than most similar areas, with only 13.9% of residents living alone. Most homes are occupied by families, and two-person households are the most frequent, making up 32.6% of the total.
2.9
▼ -3.3%
- 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 Selby — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 2.9 people per home, Selby's typical household is a little larger than the national figure of 2.5. Very few people live alone here, at just 13.9%, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
13.9% ▼ -0.1%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Selby, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (24%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 66.1%. One-parent families account for 12.1% of the total, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
12.1% ▲ +16.9%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Selby, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Selby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22258/selby/topic/family-households