2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brunswick East · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Brunswick East
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Brunswick East than in the rest of the state. This is a small-household area where nearly 39% of residents live by themselves, which is 13 percentage points higher than the Victorian average.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Brunswick East — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Brunswick East has just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This trend has grown since 2011, as the share of one-person households rose by 9.4 percentage points to reach 38.7%.
38.7% ▲ +32.0%
Higher than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Brunswick East splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 43.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.1% of the total, a figure that is well below the own national average and has barely changed since 2011.
11.1% ▲ +1.9%
Lower than 69% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Brunswick East splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (43%), with One-parent families at 11%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Brunswick East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/206011106/brunswick-east/topic/family-households