1.8 ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Raymond Island · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Raymond Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
Just 1.8 people live in the typical home on Raymond Island, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This small household size is driven by a high number of people living alone and a large proportion of couples without children.
1.8
▼ -14.3%
- 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 Raymond Island — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is much more common here than in most areas, with 37.1% of households being single-person homes. This is far above the Victorian figure of 25.9% and helps explain why the number of people per home has fallen since 2011.
37.1% ▼ -4.3%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 38.3%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Raymond Island, the largest group is 2 people at 50%, followed by 1 person (37%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 69.5%, while one-parent families are among the lowest in the region at 6.3%. This share of single-parent homes is well below the national figure of 14.1% and has fallen since 2011.
6.3% ▼ -50.0%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Raymond Island, Couples without children is the majority at 69%; Couples with children is next at 24%.
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 Raymond Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221060/raymond-island/topic/family-households