2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Charlton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Charlton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Charlton than in most similar areas. This trend has grown since 2011 and means homes here are much smaller than the state and national figures. The typical home now holds just 2.0 people.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Charlton — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 39% of residents live alone, which is far above the 26% national figure. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the average household size has edged down to 2.0 people.
38.8% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 41.1%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Charlton splits fairly evenly between 2 people (43%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 45.8%, while 38.2% are couples with children. One-parent families account for 13.6% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the Victorian average.
13.6% ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Charlton, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Charlton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221018/charlton/topic/family-households