1.9 ▼ -24.0%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Heathcote · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Heathcote
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Heathcote than in other parts of the state. The area has a very small typical household size of just 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This shift has accelerated over the last decade as the number of single-person homes rose sharply.
1.9
▼ -24.0%
- 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 Heathcote — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 42.5% of people here live alone, a figure that is far above the Victorian average of 25.9% and has climbed 19 points since 2011. This helps explain why the number of people per home is among the lowest for similar areas.
42.5% ▲ +82.2%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Heathcote splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 44.1%, while 15.3% of families are one-parent households. This last group is a little above the national figure and has risen slightly since 2011.
15.3% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Heathcote, the largest group is Couples without children at 44%, followed by Couples with children (39%) 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 Heathcote [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215038/heathcote/topic/family-households