2.1 ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dartmoor · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Dartmoor
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller living arrangements are becoming the norm in Dartmoor (L), where the typical home now holds just 2.1 people. This shift is driven by a growing number of single-person households, which now make up a third of all homes in the area.
2.1
▼ -16.0%
- 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 Dartmoor — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A third of residents now live alone, a figure that has jumped 14 points since 2011 and sits well above the national level. This trend helps explain why the typical home size is a little below the Victorian and Australian figures of 2.5 people.
33.0% ▲ +76.2%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Dartmoor splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of families here are couples without children, while 42.1% are couples with children. One-parent families make up 9.8% of the total, which is well below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
9.8% ▲ +34.4%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dartmoor, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (41%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Dartmoor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222016/dartmoor/topic/family-households