1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Violet Town · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Violet Town
How families and households are made up across the area.
A shift towards smaller households has defined Violet Town over the last decade. The typical home now holds only 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This trend is driven by a very high number of people living alone.
1.9
▼ -13.6%
- 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 Violet Town — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 41.7% of people in Violet Town live alone, a figure far above the Victorian average of 25.9%. Consequently, single-person homes are the most common, making up 41.7% of all households.
41.7% ▲ +28.0%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 41.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Violet Town splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.7% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% national figure. Couples with children are the most common family type at 40.8%.
17.7% ▲ +38.7%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Violet Town splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families at 18%.
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 Violet Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22635/violet-town/topic/family-households