1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
West Melbourne · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in West Melbourne
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people share a home in West Melbourne than is typical for the state. The area is shaped by a high number of small households, with 39% of residents 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 West Melbourne — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in West Melbourne holds only 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the high proportion of single-person households, which are far more common here than across Victoria.
39.0% ▲ +48.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →West Melbourne splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 54.4%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 7.9% of the total, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
7.9% ▼ -14.1%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In West Melbourne, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 West Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22757/west-melbourne/topic/family-households