2.0 —
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Richmond (Northern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Richmond (Northern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Richmond (Northern Metropolitan) than in most other similar areas. This trend has grown over time, resulting in a small typical household size of just two people. It is a place where single-person homes are very common.
2.0
—
- 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 Richmond (Northern Metropolitan) — lower than 99% of areas.
| Richmond (Northern Metropolitan) | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 37.9% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical home has only 2.0 people, well below the Victorian average of 2.5.
37.9% —
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Richmond (Northern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 44.5%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.9% of the total, which is a little below the Australian average of 14.1%.
11.9% —
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Richmond (Northern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Richmond (Northern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED27003/richmond/topic/family-households