2.6 ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hastings (Eastern Victoria) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Hastings (Eastern Victoria)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the biggest group of families in Hastings, accounting for 58.9% of the area. This makes for a community where households are generally larger than in most other areas, with the typical home now holding 2.6 people.
2.6
▲ +8.3%
- 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 Hastings (Eastern Victoria) — higher than 57% of areas.
| Hastings (Eastern Victoria) | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Hastings have grown larger since 2011, moving from 2.4 to 2.6 people on average. Meanwhile, the proportion of people living alone has fallen 4.1 points over the last decade to 24.0%.
24.0% ▼ -14.6%
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Hastings (Eastern Victoria), the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 4 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 14.3% of the local total, a figure that has risen slightly since 2011. This is about the same as the state and national figures.
14.3% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hastings (Eastern Victoria), Couples with children is the majority at 59%; 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 Hastings (Eastern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED23702/hastings/topic/family-households