2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sea Lake · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Sea Lake
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Sea Lake than in most similar areas. This trend creates a small average household size of just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure. These patterns make the local housing landscape quite different from the rest of Victoria.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Sea Lake — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 38.2% of residents live by themselves, a figure far above the same rate for Victoria and Australia. Because of this, the typical home is smaller than usual, with the number of people per home falling from 2.3 in 2011 to 2.0 in 2021.
38.2% ▼ -1.7%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 36.9%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sea Lake splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 41.2% of families, while 40.5% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 16.2% of the total, which is a little above the national figure, though this proportion fell 5.8 points since 2011.
16.2% ▼ -26.2%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Sea Lake splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families 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 Sea Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221063/sea-lake/topic/family-households