2.3 —
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Frankston (South-Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Frankston (South-Eastern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Frankston than in most similar areas, with 31% of households consisting of a single person. This trend toward smaller living arrangements means the area has a lower typical home occupancy than both the state and national figures.
2.3
—
- 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 Frankston (South-Eastern Metropolitan) — lower than 86% of areas.
| Frankston (South-Eastern Metropolitan) | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Frankston holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This reflects a rise in people living alone, which now makes up 31% of all households.
31.0% —
Higher than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Frankston (South-Eastern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.3% of the total, a figure that is well above the Victorian average of 13.3% and among the highest for areas of this type.
20.3% —
Higher than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Frankston (South-Eastern Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Frankston (South-Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED23205/frankston/topic/family-households