2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tyers · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Tyers
How families and households are made up across the area.
About half of all families in Tyers (L) are couples with children. This is the most common household type in the area, though a growing number of people now live alone.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Tyers — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes in Tyers (L) hold 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure. The proportion of people living alone has risen to 28.8%, a figure well above the Australian average.
28.8% ▲ +8.4%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 45.1%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tyers splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 21%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.4% of the area, which is well above the Victorian average and rose 5.9 percentage points since 2011. Couples with children are the largest group at 49.3%.
16.4% ▲ +56.6%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tyers, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (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 Tyers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222095/tyers/topic/family-households