3.0 ▲ +20.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kialla West · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kialla West
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Kialla West compared to the rest of the state. This is a place where homes are typically larger than the national figure, with a strong focus on family living. Most households are made up of couples with children.
3.0
▲ +20.0%
- 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 Kialla West — higher than 87% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than in most areas, with an average of 3.0 people per dwelling. This is a little above the national figure and reflects a sharp drop in people living alone, which fell 13 percentage points since 2011 to just 15.1%.
15.1% ▼ -45.8%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kialla West splits fairly evenly between 4 people (32%) and 2 people (29%), with 1 person at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 66% of families in the area. Single-parent families are among the lowest at this level, at 5.1%, which is well below the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
5.1% ▼ -76.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kialla West, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Kialla West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222038/kialla-west/topic/family-households