2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Meeniyan · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Meeniyan
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger-than-average households shape daily life in Meeniyan, where nearly half of all families are couples raising children. This creates a community feel with more people sharing homes than in most similar areas. While the typical home holds 2.4 people, a growing number of residents are now living on their own.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 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 Meeniyan — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 42% of homes in Meeniyan house two people, and 25.4% are single-person households. The proportion of people living alone has risen since 2011, though the overall number of people per home has edged down slightly to 2.4.
25.4% ▲ +11.5%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Meeniyan, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 4 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 16.8% of the total, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%. This is higher than most similar areas, even though the number of one-parent families fell by 2.7 percentage points since 2011.
16.8% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Meeniyan, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Meeniyan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221048/meeniyan/topic/family-households