1.7 → 0.0%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
St Kilda · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in St Kilda
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all homes in St Kilda are occupied by just one person. This makes it a place of very small households, with the typical home holding only 1.7 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.7
→ 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 St Kilda — lower than 94% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A striking 52.7% of people here live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This high number of single-person homes explains why the area has some of the lowest occupancy rates among similar places.
52.7% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.1%
- 2016: 46.7%
- 2021: 52.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In St Kilda, 1 person is the majority at 53%; 2 people is next at 34%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 55%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 10% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.0% ▼ -1.8%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In St Kilda, Couples without children is the majority at 55%; Couples with children is next at 33%.
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 St Kilda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22343/st-kilda/topic/family-households