2.8 —
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Mount Waverley, where a typical home holds 2.8 people. This is higher than most other areas and reflects a community heavily dominated by couples with children.
2.8
—
- 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 Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan) — higher than 79% of areas.
| Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan) | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than the state and national figures of 2.5 people. This is mirrored by the fact that only 18.8% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
18.8% —
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up the vast majority of the area at 66.1%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.0%, which is much lower than most other areas.
11.0% —
Lower than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Mount Waverley (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED25501/mount-waverley/topic/family-households