2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Torquay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Torquay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Torquay than in most other areas, with only 19.2% of households consisting of one person. This is well below the national figure of 25.6%, marking Torquay as a place where residents are much more likely to live with others.
2.7
→ 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 Torquay — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than typical, with 2.7 people per household. While 34.1% of homes hold two people, a significant 21.2% contain four people, contributing to a total that is slightly higher than the Victoria and Australia figures.
19.2% ▼ -5.1%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Torquay, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 4 people (21%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families in Torquay are couples with children, making up 64.9% of the total. This helps explain why one-parent families are much less common here at 8.7%, which is well below both the state and national figures.
8.7% ▼ -16.6%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Torquay, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Torquay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22551/torquay/topic/family-households