2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Stanhope · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Stanhope
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person households have become far more common in Stanhope than in most similar areas. This shift has contributed to a smaller typical household size, with 32.6% of homes now occupied by just one person. This is well above the national figure of 25.6%.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Stanhope — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Stanhope usually hold 2.2 people, which is a little below the Victorian average of 2.5. This is partly because 32.6% of people live alone—a figure well above the state and national averages.
32.6% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Stanhope, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (33%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.2% of the local total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples with children are the most common family type at 42.4%, followed by couples without children at 38.5%.
18.2% ▲ +54.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Stanhope splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (43%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 18%.
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 Stanhope [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22350/stanhope/topic/family-households