2.2 —
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lowan (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Lowan (Western Victoria)
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Lowan (Western Victoria) than in most similar areas. This is a sparsely populated region where small households are common, with the typical home holding just 2.2 people.
2.2
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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 Lowan (Western Victoria) — lower than 90% of areas.
| Lowan (Western Victoria) | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Vic. | 2.4 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 33.3% of residents live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical household size of 2.2 people is lower than the 2.5 seen across Victoria and Australia.
33.3% —
Higher than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Lowan (Western Victoria) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 51.2% of families here, while 34.7% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 13.1%, which is about the same as the state average.
13.1% —
Lower than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lowan (Western Victoria), Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Lowan (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24408/lowan/topic/family-households