2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Traralgon · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Traralgon
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Traralgon are couples with children. This is a place where a high number of people live alone and single-parent families are much more common than in most other areas.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Traralgon — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 31.3% of households consisting of just one person, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home in Traralgon holds 2.3 people, slightly fewer than the 2.5 seen across Australia.
31.3% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Traralgon splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 17.6% of the total, a figure well above the Victorian average of 13.3%. Other family types include couples without children at 28.3% and couples with children at 53.1%.
17.6% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Traralgon, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Traralgon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22569/traralgon/topic/family-households