1.8 ▼ -25.0%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Prahran (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Prahran (Southern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person households have surged in Prahran since 2011, now making up nearly half of all homes. This shift has seen the area become much less crowded than the national average, with the typical home now holding fewer than two people.
1.8
▼ -25.0%
- 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 Prahran (Southern Metropolitan) — lower than 99% of areas.
| Prahran (Southern Metropolitan) | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 47% of residents live alone, a figure that rose 18 points since 2011 and is far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why Prahran has only 1.8 people per home, which is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
46.9% ▲ +62.4%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 41.1%
- 2021: 46.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Prahran (Southern Metropolitan), the largest group is 1 person at 47%, followed by 2 people (37%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 51%. One-parent families represent 10% of the total, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1% and has barely changed since 2011.
10.0% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Prahran (Southern Metropolitan), Couples without children is the majority at 51%; Couples with children is next at 36%.
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 Prahran (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED26806/prahran/topic/family-households