2.1 ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Penshurst · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Penshurst
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-one per cent of homes in Penshurst are occupied by people living alone, which is far above the national figure. This high number of single-person households means the typical home is smaller than most, with only 2.1 people per dwelling. Overall, the area has a mix of family types and a significant number of solo residents.
2.1
▲ +5.0%
- 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 Penshurst — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 40.8% of households, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why the typical home here has just 2.1 people, which is a little below the Victorian average of 2.5.
40.8% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 46.2%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 40.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Penshurst, the largest group is 1 person at 41%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 4 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the most common family type at 43.4%, followed by couples without children at 38.5%. One-parent families make up 15.7% of the total, a figure that is a little above the national average and has risen 6.3 points since 2011.
15.7% ▲ +67.0%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Penshurst splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 16%.
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 Penshurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222069/penshurst/topic/family-households