2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Moyhu · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Moyhu
How families and households are made up across the area.
Two-person households are the most common arrangement in Moyhu, making up 43.9% of all homes. This small area has a higher number of people per home than most similar places, though the typical size has edged down slightly over the last decade.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 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 Moyhu — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 23.2% of people here live alone, which is lower than most areas and has fallen since 2011. The typical home holds 2.4 people, a figure that is about the same as the state and national totals.
23.2% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Moyhu, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the largest family group at 41.6%, while one-parent families make up 15.1%. This last group has risen by 6.2 percentage points since 2011, leaving the area a little above the Victorian average.
15.1% ▲ +70.3%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Moyhu splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families at 15%.
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 Moyhu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222059/moyhu/topic/family-households