2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tarnook · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tarnook
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people live alone in Tarnook compared to the rest of the state, with only 20.9% of households consisting of one person. This is well below the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Most homes here are occupied by couples, creating a community where single-person households are much less common than the national average.
2.3
—
- 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 Tarnook — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Tarnook holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. About 32.6% of households consist of two people, while 18.6% have four residents.
20.9% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tarnook, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 4 people (22%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families at 55.1%. Only 8.7% of families are one-parent households, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
8.7% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tarnook, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 37%.
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 Tarnook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22452/tarnook/topic/family-households