3.1 —
Higher than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cranbourne (South-Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Cranbourne (South-Eastern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are much more common in Cranbourne than in most similar areas. This is a place where families typically live together in bigger groups, with 3.1 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5. This pattern has remained steady since 2016.
3.1
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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 Cranbourne (South-Eastern Metropolitan) — higher than 95% of areas.
| Cranbourne (South-Eastern Metropolitan) | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 15.2% of people live alone here, which is far below the Victorian average of 25.9%. This helps explain why the area has some of the highest household sizes around, with 23.3% of homes housing four people.
15.2% —
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cranbourne (South-Eastern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (25%) and 4 people (23%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 70.1%. In contrast, one-parent families account for 12.9%, a figure slightly lower than the Australian average of 14.1%.
12.9% —
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cranbourne (South-Eastern Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 70%; Couples without children is next at 16%.
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 Cranbourne (South-Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED22105/cranbourne/topic/family-households