2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Weatherboard · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Weatherboard
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Weatherboard than in most other similar areas. While a typical home holds about 2.4 people, nearly 40% of all households are single-person dwellings.
2.4
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- 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 Weatherboard — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Four out of ten people in Weatherboard live by themselves, a figure far above the Victorian average of 25.9%. This means the area has a much higher rate of lone occupants than the state or the rest of Australia.
40.0% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Weatherboard, the largest group is 1 person at 47%, followed by 2 people (29%) and 5 people (24%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single parents make up 17.1% of families here, which is well above the state figure of 13.3%. More than half of all families are couples with children.
17.1% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Weatherboard, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (31%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Weatherboard [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22732/weatherboard/topic/family-households