2.8 ▲ +27.3%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gembrook · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Gembrook
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are a defining feature of Gembrook, where an average of 2.8 people live in each home. This is much higher than most similar areas and reflects a shift toward bigger living arrangements over the last decade.
2.8
▲ +27.3%
- 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 Gembrook — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Fewer people live alone here compared to the rest of the state, with only 20.4% of households being single-person homes. This is a big drop from 2011, when 37% of residents lived alone, helping drive the increase in typical home size.
20.4% ▼ -44.9%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gembrook, the largest group is 2 people at 31%, followed by 4 people (21%) and 1 person (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 60.7% of the total. Single-parent families account for 14.6%, a figure that is a little above the Victorian average and has remained steady since 2011.
14.6% ▼ -0.9%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gembrook, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; 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 Gembrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215036/gembrook/topic/family-households