1.9 —
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan) are couples without children. This area is defined by small households and a very high number of people living alone, with the typical home holding fewer than two people.
1.9
—
- 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 Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan) — lower than 99% of areas.
| Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan) | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 42.5% of households, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen since 2016. This helps explain why the typical home size of 1.9 people is well below the Victorian and Australian figures of 2.5.
42.5% —
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 50.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up 10.2% of the mix, which is well below both the state and national figures.
10.2% —
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan), Couples without children is the majority at 51%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24703/melbourne/topic/family-households