2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sale · Urban Area
Family & Households in Sale
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Sale than in previous years, with the share of single-person homes rising by 7.9 percentage points since 2011. This shift has contributed to a trend of smaller households, and the typical home now holds 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 2.0: 2 areas
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 11 areas
- 2.3: 27 areas
- 2.4: 24 areas
- 2.5: 27 areas
- 2.6: 9 areas
- 2.7: 5 areas
- 2.8: 3 areas
- 2.9: 0 areas
- 3.0: 1 area
- 3.1: 0 areas
- 3.2: 0 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All urban area areas, 2021. The marker is Sale — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are now common in Sale, making up 32.9% of all households, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Because so many people live alone, the usual home size is 2.3 people, a little below the Victorian average of 2.5.
32.9% ▲ +31.7%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 32.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sale splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.6% of the total, a figure that is well above both the state and national averages. This is a notable increase from 2011, when they represented 11.8% of families.
17.6% ▲ +49.2%
Higher than 63% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sale, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Sale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2015/sale/topic/family-households