2.4 ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sunset Strip · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Sunset Strip
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of homes in Sunset Strip are occupied by just one person, making it a place with a high number of single-person households. This reflects a mix of living arrangements, though the area also has a notable number of families with children.
2.4
▲ +9.1%
- 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 Sunset Strip — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home has 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure. However, 34.9% of residents live alone, a rate that is well above the Victorian average and has risen since 2011.
34.9% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sunset Strip splits fairly evenly between 1 person (32%) and 2 people (30%), with 4 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 24.9% of the community, which is far above the figures for Victoria and Australia. This proportion has risen by 7 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children account for 54.2% of families.
24.9% ▲ +39.0%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 24.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sunset Strip, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; One-parent families is next at 25%.
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 Sunset Strip [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221068/sunset-strip/topic/family-households