2.8 —
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Werribee (Western Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Werribee (Western Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
Household sizes in Werribee (Western Metropolitan) have remained steady since 2016, with a typical home holding 2.8 people. This is much higher than most areas and stays a little above the national figure of 2.5. The area is dominated by family living, with 63% of families being 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 Werribee (Western Metropolitan) — higher than 79% of areas.
| Werribee (Western Metropolitan) | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Very few people live alone here, at 20.8%, which is well below the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why the typical home is larger than in most areas, with 29% of households containing two people and 19.7% containing three.
20.8% —
Lower than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Werribee (Western Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 people at 29%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 3 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.2% of the total, a figure that is higher than most areas and a little above the Victorian average of 13.3%. This proportion has fallen slightly by 1.2 percentage points since 2016.
16.2% —
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Werribee (Western Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Werribee (Western Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED28507/werribee/topic/family-households