2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Skenes Creek · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Skenes Creek
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living in each home than in previous years, making Skenes Creek a place where small households are now the norm. The area is defined by a high number of single-person homes and couples without children, with the typical home holding only 2 people.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Skenes Creek — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of people living alone, who make up 32% of households—well above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
32.0% ▲ +33.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 44.6%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Skenes Creek, the largest group is 2 people at 50%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families at 53.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.7%, a figure well below the Victorian average of 13.3%.
9.7% ▲ +91.2%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Skenes Creek, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 36%.
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 Skenes Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22286/skenes-creek/topic/family-households