1.9 ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Talbot · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Talbot
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-three per cent of households in Talbot are made up of people living alone, a figure far above the Victorian and national averages. This creates a smaller typical household size than most other areas. The community has a high proportion of single-person homes and a notable number of one-parent families.
1.9
▼ -20.8%
- 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 Talbot — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Talbot holds only 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, which make up 43.1% of all homes.
43.1% ▲ +32.9%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 41.2%
- 2021: 43.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Talbot splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.3% of the total, which is well above the state figure of 13.3%. Couples without children are the most common family type at 45.7%.
21.3% ▲ +25.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Talbot, the largest group is Couples without children at 45%, followed by Couples with children (31%) and One-parent families (21%).
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 Talbot [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22423/talbot/topic/family-households