2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Metung · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Metung
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller household sizes than most similar areas define Metung, where only 2.1 people live in the typical home. This trend has grown since 2011, as the number of people living alone has fallen by 6.4 percentage points.
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 Metung — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Over half of all homes (53.4%) are occupied by just two people. The 2.1 people per home is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5.
26.4% ▼ -19.6%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Metung, 2 people is the majority at 53%; 1 person is next at 26%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group here at 56.4%. One-parent families account for only 9.8%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.8% ▼ -34.0%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Metung, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 33%.
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 Metung [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215055/metung/topic/family-households