1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Travancore · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Travancore
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes are a defining feature of Travancore, where far more people live alone than in most similar areas. This trend means the typical home here is much smaller than the state or national average, with only 1.9 people per dwelling.
1.9
▼ -9.5%
- 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 Travancore — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 41.8% of people here live alone, a figure far above the 25.9% seen across Victoria. This helps explain why homes are smaller, with 1.9 people per house compared to the national figure of 2.5.
41.8% ▲ +25.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 41.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Travancore splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 47.2%. One-parent families account for 11% of the total, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
11.0% ▲ +57.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Travancore, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Travancore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22572/travancore/topic/family-households