2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Toolondo · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Toolondo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Toolondo are occupied by people living alone, making it a place where single-person households are far more common than usual. This high number of solo residents means homes here are typically smaller, with just 2.2 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5.
2.2
→ 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 Toolondo — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 46.9% of people live alone, which is among the highest rates for similar areas and far above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Small households are the norm, with 37.5% of homes containing two people and only 9.4% holding five or more.
46.9% ▲ +60.0%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 46.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Toolondo, the largest group is 1 person at 41%, followed by 2 people (32%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 28.1% of the total, a figure that is far above both the state (13.3%) and national (14.1%) averages. Other families are less common, with couples without children representing 35.1% of the mix.
28.1% ▲ +218.7%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 28.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Toolondo splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (36%) and Couples with children (35%), with One-parent families 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 Toolondo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22540/toolondo/topic/family-households