2.4 —
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brighton (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Brighton (Southern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Brighton than in most similar areas, with 30.6% of all households consisting of a single person. This creates a distinctive mix of home lives, where single-person homes are common alongside a strong core of couples with children.
2.4
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- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Brighton (Southern Metropolitan) — lower than 71% of areas.
| Brighton (Southern Metropolitan) | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Brighton holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure. This lower-than-average density is driven by the fact that 30.6% of residents live alone, a figure that has risen since 2016.
30.6% —
Higher than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 30.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Brighton (Southern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (31%), with 4 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 61.8% of families here. One-parent families are much less common than in most areas, at 10.3%, which is well below the Victorian average of 13.3%.
10.3% —
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brighton (Southern Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next 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 Brighton (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21106/brighton/topic/family-households