2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 89% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Grampians · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Grampians
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller households are a defining feature of daily life in the Grampians, where the typical home holds just 2.2 people. This is much lower than most similar areas and reflects a region with a high number of people living on their own.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 1.0: 1 area
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 4 areas
- 2.0: 3 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 17 areas
- 2.3: 60 areas
- 2.4: 55 areas
- 2.5: 57 areas
- 2.6: 43 areas
- 2.7: 19 areas
- 2.8: 27 areas
- 2.9: 16 areas
- 3.0: 13 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 1 area
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 1 area
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
All sub-region (sa3) areas, 2021. The marker is Grampians — lower than 89% of areas.
| Grampians | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Vic. | 2.4 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 33.4% of households being single-person—a figure well above the national average. This trend has risen since 2011, helping to pull the typical household size down to 2.2 people.
33.4% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 90% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Grampians splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of all families in the area are couples with children, while 34.9% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 14.0% of the total, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
14.0% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 52% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Grampians, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Grampians [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/21501/grampians/topic/family-households