2.9 ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Arcadia Downs · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Arcadia Downs
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Arcadia Downs than in the rest of the state, with only 5.3% of households being single-person homes. This contributes to a typical home size of 2.9 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5.
2.9
▼ -6.5%
- 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 Arcadia Downs — higher than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here is larger than most, though the number of people per home has edged down from 3.1 in 2011 to 2.9. More than half of all households consist of two people.
5.3% ▼ -36.8%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Arcadia Downs, the largest group is 2 people at 50%, followed by 4 people (15%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly 60% of families in the area. At 5.8%, one-parent families are well below the Victorian figure of 13.3% and have barely changed since 2011.
5.8% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Arcadia Downs, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Arcadia Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222001/arcadia-downs/topic/family-households