2.4 ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cape Schanck · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Cape Schanck
How families and households are made up across the area.
A strong preference for couple-based living shapes the local landscape of Cape Schanck, where over half of all families include children. This is a community where single-person households are uncommon, as the number of people living alone has dropped sharply since 2011.
2.4
▲ +9.1%
- 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 Cape Schanck — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly half of all homes here are occupied by two people, and the typical home now holds 2.4 people, a slight increase since 2011. Only 20.1% of residents live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
20.1% ▼ -39.9%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cape Schanck, 2 people is the majority at 52%; 1 person is next at 21%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples, with 50.4% having children and 46.5% without. Only 3.3% of families are headed by a single parent, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 14.1%.
3.3% ▼ -65.1%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Cape Schanck splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (50%) and Couples without children (46%), with One-parent families at 3%.
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 Cape Schanck [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221015/cape-schanck/topic/family-households