1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Belconnen · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Belconnen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Belconnen, where nearly 40% of people live alone. This makes the area's typical home size much smaller than the national figure. It is a place where single-person and two-person homes dominate the landscape.
1.9
→ 0.0%
- 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 Belconnen — lower than 96% of areas.
| Belconnen | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2617, ACT | 2.4 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 39.3% of residents living alone, Belconnen has a far higher rate of single-person homes than the ACT or Australian average. This helps explain why the typical home here has just 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
39.3% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 94% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Belconnen splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families here at 55.5%. One-parent families account for 11.2% of the total, a figure that is a little below the Australian average and has fallen 3.7 percentage points since 2011.
11.2% ▼ -25.1%
Lower than 69% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Belconnen, Couples without children is the majority at 55%; Couples with children is next at 30%.
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 Belconnen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801011002/belconnen/topic/family-households