2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bairnsdale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Bairnsdale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 38% of households in Bairnsdale are made up of people living alone. This high number of single-person homes means the area has a smaller typical household size than most other regions. It is a community where one-person homes and one-parent families are both much more common than the state average.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Bairnsdale — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Bairnsdale holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high proportion of people living alone, at 37.5%, which is far above the Victorian average of 25.9%.
37.5% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bairnsdale splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.9% of the total, a figure well above both the state and national averages. While couples with children are the largest group at 46.1%, the share of single parents is much higher than in most similar areas.
21.9% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bairnsdale, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (22%).
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 Bairnsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20103/bairnsdale/topic/family-households