2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alexandra · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Alexandra
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Alexandra than in most similar areas, with 39% of households consisting of just one person. This has led to a smaller typical household size than the national figure. The number of single-person homes has risen steadily since 2011.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Alexandra — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Alexandra has 2.1 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. This is consistent with a high number of people living alone, which rose 6.5 percentage points since 2011.
39.0% ▲ +19.9%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Alexandra splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 47% of families here, while 37.2% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 14.8% of the total, a figure that is a little above the state average and has risen since 2011.
14.8% ▲ +15.8%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alexandra, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (15%).
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 Alexandra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215002/alexandra/topic/family-households