2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Moorabool · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Moorabool
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger home sizes are a key feature of daily life in Moorabool, where 2.6 people live in the typical house. This is much higher than most areas, reflecting a local landscape where single-person living is far less common than in the rest of the state.
2.6
▼ -3.7%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Moorabool — higher than 79% of areas.
| Moorabool | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Vic. | 2.4 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 22.9% of people here live alone, which is well below the Victorian figure of 25.9%. While the number of single-person homes has risen slightly since 2011, the typical household size has edged down from 2.7 to 2.6 people.
22.9% ▲ +4.2%
Lower than 82% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Moorabool, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families in the area are couples with children, making up 59.5% of the total. One-parent families account for 13.7%, a figure that is about the same as both the state and national averages.
13.7% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Moorabool, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Moorabool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA25150/moorabool/topic/family-households