2.4 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Stratford · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Stratford
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live in each home in Stratford than in most similar areas. This community is largely made up of families, with over half of all households consisting of couples with children.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 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 Stratford — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure. While 28.1% of people live alone, this has fallen by 1.9 percentage points since 2011.
28.1% ▼ -6.3%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 28.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Stratford, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54.2% of families here. One-parent families account for 12.1%, a figure that is lower than most areas and has fallen 7.2 percentage points since 2011.
12.1% ▼ -37.1%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Stratford, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without 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 Stratford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215080/stratford/topic/family-households