2.8 —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tennyson · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tennyson
How families and households are made up across the area.
Zero one-parent families live in Tennyson, making it an outlier compared to most of the country. This small community is dominated by family groups, with the typical home holding nearly three people.
2.8
—
- 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 Tennyson — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with a typical 2.8 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5. Only 17.4% of people live alone, which is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
17.4% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tennyson, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 3 people (20%) and 1 person (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is very traditional here, as 62.7% of families are couples with children. This helps explain why there are no one-parent families in the area, a figure far below the Victorian average of 13.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tennyson, Couples with children is the majority at 71%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Tennyson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22487/tennyson/topic/family-households