2.5 → 0.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Serpentine · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Serpentine
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Serpentine than across the rest of the state. Most homes here are headed by couples, with a typical household size of 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.5
→ 0.0%
- 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 Serpentine — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly half of all households have two people, while those living alone make up 22.2% of the area. This proportion of single-person homes is well below the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
22.2% ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Serpentine, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (22%) and 5 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 56.4%. Only 4.1% of families are led by a single parent, which is far below the Australian average of 14.1%.
4.1% ▼ -65.4%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Serpentine, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
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 Serpentine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22261/serpentine/topic/family-households