2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Strangways · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Strangways
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family structures in Strangways have shifted since 2011, with households now tending to be smaller than the state average. The area is mostly made up of couples, with 46.4% of families being couples without children. This creates a landscape where smaller living groups are common.
2.2
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- 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 Strangways — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Strangways holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figure of 2.5. This is consistent with the fact that only 16.2% of people live alone, a figure well below the 25.6% national average.
16.2% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Strangways, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 3 people (22%) and 1 person (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families here, with those without children representing 46.4% and those with children at 44.9%. One-parent families make up 11.6%, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.6% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Strangways splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 11%.
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 Strangways [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22367/strangways/topic/family-households