2.4 ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Trafalgar · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Trafalgar
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live in larger households in Trafalgar than in most similar areas. The town's family life is marked by a high number of single-parent homes, which are far more common here than across Victoria or Australia.
2.4
▲ +4.3%
- 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 Trafalgar — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Two-person homes are the most common at 35.4%, while 29.0% of people live alone. This rate of single-person households is well above the national figure and has risen since 2011.
29.0% ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Trafalgar, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 18.3% of the total, a figure that is well above the state average and has climbed 2.6 percentage points since 2011. Couples with children are the most frequent family type at 53.0%.
18.3% ▲ +16.5%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Trafalgar, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Trafalgar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215086/trafalgar/topic/family-households