2.6 ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tyers · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tyers
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Tyers than in most similar areas, with an average of 2.6 people per household. This trend is driven by a high proportion of families and far fewer people living alone compared to the rest of the country.
2.6
▼ -7.1%
- 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 Tyers — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 17% of people here live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. Most homes are occupied by two people (38.8%), though larger households of five people make up nearly 10% of the total.
17.0% ▲ +16.4%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tyers, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (17%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 58.9% of families, while one-parent families account for just 7.4%. This last figure is well below the Victorian average of 13.3%.
7.4% ▲ +10.9%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tyers, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Tyers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22596/tyers/topic/family-households