2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Leitchville · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Leitchville
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Leitchville than in most similar areas. This makes the local population smaller per home than the state and national figures, with the typical household now containing just 2.1 people.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Leitchville — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 34.2% of residents live alone, a figure well above the Victorian average of 25.9% and one that has risen since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home size is smaller than the national figure of 2.5 people.
34.2% ▲ +3.3%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Leitchville, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (38%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.9% of the local mix, which is well above the state average of 13.3%. This is alongside a large proportion of couples without children, who account for 44.8% of families.
16.9% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Leitchville splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (40%), 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 Leitchville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222042/leitchville/topic/family-households