2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Strathmore · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Strathmore
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a roof in Strathmore than in most other areas, with 2.8 people living in the typical home. This is a family-heavy community where large households are the norm and few people live by themselves.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Strathmore — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 19.4% of residents live alone, which is well below the Victorian figure of 25.9%. With typical homes holding 2.8 people, this is a little above the national average of 2.5.
19.4% ▼ -1.0%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Strathmore, the largest group is 2 people at 29%, followed by 4 people (24%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families here at 71.3%. Consequently, one-parent families make up just 8.8% of the total, a figure well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
8.8% ▼ -14.4%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Strathmore, Couples with children is the majority at 71%; Couples without children is next at 19%.
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 Strathmore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22380/strathmore/topic/family-households