3.2 ▲ +45.5%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nichols Point · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Nichols Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than three people live in the typical home in Nichols Point, making it one of the most crowded areas at this level. This is a family-heavy community where very few people live alone. The number of people sharing each home has risen sharply since 2011.
3.2
▲ +45.5%
- 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 Nichols Point — higher than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 3.2 people per home, Nichols Point is well above the Victorian and national figure of 2.5. This shift is reflected in the low 8.6% of people living alone, which is far below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
8.6% ▼ -38.7%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Nichols Point splits fairly evenly between 2 people (28%) and 4 people (28%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 77.9% of families here. Only 5.5% are one-parent families, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen by 4.7 percentage points since 2011.
5.5% ▼ -46.0%
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Nichols Point, Couples with children is the majority at 79%; Couples without children is next at 16%.
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 Nichols Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221055/nichols-point/topic/family-households