2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tootgarook · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tootgarook
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Tootgarook are couples with children. This is the most common family type in the area, though homes here generally hold fewer people than the national figure.
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 Tootgarook — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is more common here than in most areas, with 30.7% of households consisting of one person. This helps explain why the typical home in Tootgarook holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victoria and Australia figures of 2.5.
30.7% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tootgarook splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.8% of the total, a figure that is well above both the state and national averages. Couples without children are also common, accounting for 31.7% of families.
18.8% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tootgarook, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (32%) and One-parent families (19%).
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 Tootgarook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22550/tootgarook/topic/family-households