3.4 ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Truganina · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Truganina
How families and households are made up across the area.
Large households are the norm in Truganina, where 3.4 people typically live in each home. This is well above the national figure of 2.5, making it one of the most crowded residential areas in the region.
3.4
▲ +9.7%
- 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 Truganina — higher than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Very few people live alone here, with only 9.8% of households being single-person, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.9%. This is reflected in the home sizes, as over half of all households contain three or four people.
9.8% ▼ -33.3%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Truganina splits fairly evenly between 4 people (26%) and 3 people (24%), with 2 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples with children, who make up 76.4% of the area. This helps explain why one-parent families are less common here than in most other areas, sitting at just 9.1%.
9.1% ▼ -35.4%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Truganina, Couples with children is the majority at 76%; Couples without children is next at 13%.
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 Truganina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22582/truganina/topic/family-households