2.6 —
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Burwood (Southern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up a huge 64.4% of families in Burwood (Southern Metropolitan). This high proportion of families with kids means homes here are often fuller than in most other areas. It is a place where family life is the dominant story, with very few one-parent households compared to similar suburbs.
2.6
—
- 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 Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) — higher than 57% of areas.
| Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A typical home has 2.6 people, which is higher than most areas. This is slightly more than the national figure of 2.5, though it has edged down since 2016. About 23.9% of residents live alone.
23.9% —
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Burwood (Southern Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 4 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 11.4% of the total, a figure that is much lower than most areas and a little below the national average of 14.1%. This has remained steady since the last census.
11.4% —
Lower than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Burwood (Southern Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21706/burwood/topic/family-households