2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Whittington · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Whittington
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Whittington consist of just one person. This makes it a place where smaller living arrangements are common, and the typical home holds fewer people than is usual for the state or the nation.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Whittington — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Whittington holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This lower density is driven by the 37.3% of people living alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
37.3% ▲ +12.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Whittington splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 34.1% of the total, which is among the highest for similar areas and far above the Victorian average of 13.3%. Couples with children are the next largest group at 36.5%.
34.1% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Whittington splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (34%), with Couples without children at 27%.
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 Whittington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22774/whittington/topic/family-households