2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Toorak · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Toorak
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much smaller households than most other areas define Toorak, where many residents live alone. The typical home holds just 2.1 people, which is lower than the state and national figures of 2.5.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Toorak — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Over a third of residents (35.2%) live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes are smaller here, with 37.5% of households containing only two people.
35.2% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Toorak splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 49% of families, while couples without children account for 39.5%. Only 10.3% are one-parent families, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
10.3% ▲ +17.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Toorak, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (40%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Toorak [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22547/toorak/topic/family-households