2.2 ▼ -12.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tarwin Lower · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tarwin Lower
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller home sizes define daily life in Tarwin Lower, where the typical household has just 2.2 people. This is a little below the Victorian and national figures, reflecting a place where small households are the norm.
2.2
▼ -12.0%
- 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 Tarwin Lower — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Over half of all homes house just two people, while 26.3% of residents live alone. This rate of single-person households is higher than most similar areas and about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
26.3% ▲ +48.4%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tarwin Lower, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life here is dominated by couples, with those without children making up 46.6% of families. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 6.2%, a figure that is well below the national and state averages.
6.2% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Tarwin Lower splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (46%), with One-parent families at 6%.
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 Tarwin Lower [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22465/tarwin-lower/topic/family-households