2.4 ▼ -17.2%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Poowong · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Poowong
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 57% of families in Poowong, the most common household type in the area. This small community has a strong family focus, with one-parent families now well below the national figure.
2.4
▼ -17.2%
- 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 Poowong — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home has 2.4 people, which is higher than most similar areas and down from 2.9 in 2011. While 23.8% of people live alone, this is a little below the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
23.8% ▲ +41.1%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Poowong, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 7.5% of the total, a figure that is well below the Australian average and fell 9.1 points since 2011. Most families here are couples, with 57% having children and 33.9% without.
7.5% ▼ -54.7%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Poowong, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Poowong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222071/poowong/topic/family-households