2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Thornton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Thornton
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Thornton than in most similar areas, with 41.1% of households consisting of just one person. This has created a landscape where homes are smaller and less crowded than the state average. The area's family life is mostly defined by couples, with very few single-parent homes.
2.0
▼ -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 Thornton — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Thornton holds just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is largely because people living alone make up 41.1% of households, a rate far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
41.1% ▲ +20.1%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 40.8%
- 2021: 41.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Thornton splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with or without children make up the vast majority of families here. In contrast, one-parent families account for only 8.8%, which is well below the Victorian average of 13.3%.
8.8% ▼ -38.5%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Thornton splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (48%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Thornton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22510/thornton/topic/family-households