2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tolmie · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tolmie
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Tolmie than in the rest of Victoria. This sparsely populated area is mostly made up of two-person households, which account for nearly half of all homes.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 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 Tolmie — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than the national figure, with typically 2.3 people per dwelling. Only 21.5% of people live alone, a figure well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
21.5% ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tolmie, 2 people is the majority at 51%; 1 person is next at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families, with 47.6% having no children and 43% having children. Only 8.5% are one-parent families, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
8.5% ▲ +60.7%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Tolmie splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (48%) and Couples with 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 Tolmie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22526/tolmie/topic/family-households