2.3 —
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Malvern (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Malvern (Southern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the biggest group in Malvern (Southern Metropolitan), representing 58.7% of families. The area is marked by a high number of people living alone, which helps explain why the typical home here has fewer people than the national figure.
2.3
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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 Malvern (Southern Metropolitan) — lower than 86% of areas.
| Malvern (Southern Metropolitan) | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Around 31.8% of residents live alone, a figure that is well above the Victorian average and has risen since 2016. Because of this, the usual home in Malvern has 2.3 people, which is much lower than most other areas.
31.8% —
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 31.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Malvern (Southern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (32%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 10.0% of the total, which is well below the national figure. This proportion has barely changed since 2016.
10.0% —
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Malvern (Southern Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Malvern (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24606/malvern/topic/family-households