1.8 ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Talbot · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Talbot
How families and households are made up across the area.
A growing number of people living alone has shifted the domestic landscape in Talbot (L). Nearly half of all homes are now occupied by just one person, contributing to a typical household size that is well below the national figure.
1.8
▼ -18.2%
- 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 Talbot — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 47.4% of people here live alone, a figure that is far above the Australian average and has risen 9.5 points since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home in Talbot (L) holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the Victorian average of 2.5.
47.4% ▲ +25.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 47.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Talbot, the largest group is 1 person at 49%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.6% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. While this remains much higher than most areas, the proportion has fallen 2.4 points since 2011.
21.6% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Talbot, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (31%) and One-parent families (21%).
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 Talbot [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222088/talbot/topic/family-households