2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Whitfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Whitfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households have become the norm in Whitfield, where just 2.1 people live in the typical home. This is much lower than most areas, with more than a third of residents now living on their own.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Whitfield — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 35.4% of people in single-person households, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.1 people is a little below the state average.
35.4% ▲ +62.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Whitfield, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (36%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 47.5%. One-parent families represent 11.7% of the total, a figure that is a little below both the Victorian and national averages.
11.7% ▲ +51.6%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Whitfield, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Whitfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22772/whitfield/topic/family-households