2.6 —
Higher than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Diggers Rest · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Diggers Rest
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Diggers Rest compared to the rest of Victoria, with only 21.5% of households being single-person homes. This helps explain why homes here are typically larger than in most other areas, with an average of 2.6 people per dwelling.
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- 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
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- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Diggers Rest — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home has 2.6 people, which is higher than most areas and slightly above the national figure of 2.5. Around 33.8% of households contain two people, while 21.5% are single-person homes, a figure well below the Victorian average of 25.9%.
21.5% —
Lower than 65% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Diggers Rest, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 3 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 60.7%, while one-parent families account for 12.6%. This last figure is about the same as the state average and a little below the national rate of 14.1%.
12.6% —
Lower than 55% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Diggers Rest, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Diggers Rest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/210041539/diggers-rest/topic/family-households