2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sorrento · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sorrento
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 32% of people in Sorrento live alone, a figure well above the national average. This makes the area's homes much smaller than usual, with the typical house containing only two people. These trends point to a community with few children and many single-person households.
2.0
→ 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 Sorrento — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Sorrento holds just 2.0 people, which is well below the Victorian and national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 31.9% of households are single-person, a rate much higher than most areas.
31.9% ▼ -8.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sorrento, the largest group is 2 people at 50%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 57.8%. One-parent families are much less common here than in most other areas, making up only 6.5% of families, which is well below the national average of 14.1%.
6.5% ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sorrento, Couples without children is the majority at 58%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Sorrento [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22306/sorrento/topic/family-households