2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ballarat · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Ballarat
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of Ballarat households are made up of just one person, which is well above the figures for Victoria and Australia. This makes it a place where small living arrangements are very common. The typical home here holds 2.2 people, a figure that has edged down since 2011.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Ballarat — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A high 35.3% of people live alone, which is much higher than in most other areas. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.2 people is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
35.3% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 88% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ballarat splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (35%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.1% of families, while 33.4% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 13.5%, a figure that is about the same as the state and national levels.
13.5% ▼ -11.3%
Higher than 54% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ballarat, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; 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 Ballarat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/201011002/ballarat/topic/family-households