2.7 ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lara · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Lara
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 61.8% of families in Lara, making it a strong hub for family life. This shift toward larger households is clear, as the typical home now holds 2.7 people, up from 2.2 in 2011.
2.7
▲ +22.7%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Lara — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Lara are larger than in most similar areas, with a much lower share of people living alone (21.6%) than the Victorian figure of 25.9%. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when more than a third of households were single-person homes.
21.6% ▼ -39.6%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lara, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 1 person (22%) and 4 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families account for 13.6% of the total, which is about the same as the national figure. This represents a significant decline from 2011, when one-parent families made up 22.5% of the area.
13.6% ▼ -39.6%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lara, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Lara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213008/lara/topic/family-households