1.9 ▼ -24.0%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Maldon · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Maldon
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the defining feature of daily life in Maldon, where only 1.9 people live in the typical home. This is well below the national figure of 2.5. The area has seen a sharp rise in people living alone, making it a place where many residents live independently.
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 Maldon — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 40.6% of residents live alone, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen 17 points since 2011. This helps explain why the number of people per home is among the lowest for similar areas.
40.6% ▲ +72.9%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Maldon splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Almost half of families here are couples without children, at 47.6%. One-parent families make up 12.0% of the total, which is a little below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
12.0% ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Maldon, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Maldon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215052/maldon/topic/family-households