2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 90% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
3472, VIC · Postcode
Family & Households in 3472, VIC
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes are a defining feature of postcode 3472, which has some of the lowest numbers of people per home in the region. This is driven by a very high number of people living on their own. While many residents live in couples, one-parent families are also much more common here than in most other areas.
2.0
→ 0.0%
- 1.0: 3 areas
- 1.1: 1 area
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 1 area
- 1.4: 1 area
- 1.5: 4 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 16 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 61 areas
- 2.0: 101 areas
- 2.1: 182 areas
- 2.2: 257 areas
- 2.3: 365 areas
- 2.4: 338 areas
- 2.5: 338 areas
- 2.6: 233 areas
- 2.7: 223 areas
- 2.8: 157 areas
- 2.9: 127 areas
- 3.0: 75 areas
- 3.1: 49 areas
- 3.2: 40 areas
- 3.3: 13 areas
- 3.4: 10 areas
- 3.5: 6 areas
- 3.6: 3 areas
- 3.7: 1 area
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 0 areas
- 4.2: 1 area
All postcode areas, 2021. The marker is 3472, VIC — lower than 90% of areas.
| 3472, VIC | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Central Goldfields | 2.1 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A typical home in 3472 has just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This explains why 40.5% of households are people living alone, a figure that is far above the Australian average and has risen slightly since 2011.
40.5% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 94% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 39.6%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →3472, VIC splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.4% of the area, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This proportion has grown by 4.0 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children account for 40.4% of families.
19.4% ▲ +25.5%
Higher than 88% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →3472, VIC splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (38%), with One-parent families at 20%.
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 3472, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3472/3472-vic/topic/family-households