2.4 ▲ +4.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sunset Strip · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sunset Strip
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person homes have become much more common in Sunset Strip, with 34.5% of households now consisting of just one person. This shift is part of a broader trend where the area has seen a far higher proportion of one-parent families than the state or national figures.
2.4
▲ +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 Sunset Strip — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 34.5% of households being single-person homes, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. The typical home holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as across Victoria.
34.5% ▲ +9.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sunset Strip splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (32%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 26.5% of households, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples with children are the most common family type at 50.8%.
26.5% ▲ +1.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sunset Strip, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; One-parent families is next at 27%.
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 Sunset Strip [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22394/sunset-strip/topic/family-households