2.8 ▲ +33.3%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Glengarry · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Glengarry
How families and households are made up across the area.
A sharp shift in living patterns has seen Glengarry become more crowded since 2011. This is most evident in the typical household size, which has climbed from 2.1 to 2.8 people. Now, nearly 66% of families are couples with children, making it a place where larger households are common.
2.8
▲ +33.3%
- 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 Glengarry — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Glengarry hold a little more people than the national figure, with 2.8 people per home. This trend is clear as the number of people living alone has plummeted from 37.7% in 2011 to just 16.7% today, which is well below the Victorian average.
16.7% ▼ -55.8%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 43.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Glengarry, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 4 people (21%) and 1 person (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the community at 66%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 8.5%, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen 7.4 points since 2011.
8.5% ▼ -46.7%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Glengarry, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Glengarry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221029/glengarry/topic/family-households