1.9 ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Violet Town · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Violet Town
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Violet Town compared to the rest of the state. This has left the town with much smaller households than the national figure, with the typical home now holding just 1.9 people.
1.9
▼ -20.8%
- 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 Violet Town — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 41.7% of residents live by themselves, which is far above the Victorian and national figures. This trend has grown since 2011, and it helps explain why the number of people per home is now well below the Australian average.
41.7% ▲ +41.4%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 47.4%
- 2021: 41.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Violet Town splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single parents make up 17.4% of families here, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen since 2011. Couples with children account for 40.9% of families, while those without children make up 39.3%.
17.4% ▲ +74.1%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Violet Town splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 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 Violet Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221077/violet-town/topic/family-households