2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Balaclava · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Balaclava
How families and households are made up across the area.
A shift toward smaller living arrangements has defined Balaclava, where nearly 40% of homes are now occupied by just one person. This is far above the national figure and makes the area feel much less crowded than most other places in Australia.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Balaclava — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Balaclava holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the Victorian average of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, which make up 39.6% of all homes.
39.6% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 39.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Balaclava splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of the families here are couples with children, while 37.6% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 10.0% of the total, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
10.0% ▲ +1.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Balaclava, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Balaclava [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20105/balaclava/topic/family-households