2.4 ▲ +9.1%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swan Reach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Swan Reach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small and steady home lives define Swan Reach, where most households consist of just two people. With 48.2% of families being couples with children, the area maintains a balance between family units and older or single-person homes.
2.4
▲ +9.1%
- 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 Swan Reach — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 2.4 people live in each home, which is about the same as the typical Victorian or Australian household. Roughly 23.4% of residents live alone, a figure slightly below the national average.
23.4% ▼ -22.8%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Swan Reach, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly half of all families here. In contrast, one-parent families account for only 9.5%, which is well below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
9.5% ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Swan Reach, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (42%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Swan Reach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22409/swan-reach/topic/family-households