1.8 ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Foster · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Foster
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all homes in Foster are occupied by just one person. This makes the area feel much quieter than typical Victorian towns, as the number of people living in each house has dropped since 2011.
1.8
▼ -18.2%
- 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 Foster — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Few people live per home here, with a typical figure of 1.8 compared to 2.5 across Australia. This is driven by a high number of people living alone, which rose to 48.2% in 2021—far above the state average.
48.2% ▲ +31.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 46.3%
- 2021: 48.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Foster, the largest group is 1 person at 48%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 47.7%. One-parent families represent 15.5% of the total, which is a little above the national figure and has fallen slightly since 2011.
15.5% ▼ -13.7%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Foster, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (36%) 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 Foster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215034/foster/topic/family-households