2.5 ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Leopold · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Leopold
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Leopold, where 57% of families consist of couples with children. This shift toward bigger homes is clear in the data, as the typical number of people per home has risen to 2.5 since 2011.
2.5
▲ +13.6%
- 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 Leopold — higher than 64% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The number of people living alone has dropped sharply to 23.1% since 2011, which is a little below the national figure. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 35.8% of all households.
23.1% ▼ -32.7%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Leopold, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 57%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 14% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
14.0% ▼ -43.6%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.9%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Leopold, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Leopold [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213009/leopold/topic/family-households