2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Balliang · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Balliang
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Balliang, where a typical home holds nearly three people. This makes the area much more family-focused than most, with very few residents living by themselves.
2.8
→ 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 Balliang — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The usual home here has 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. Only 15.9% of people live alone, a figure that is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
15.9% ▼ -15.4%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Balliang, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 3 people (26%) and 1 person (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with children make up 55.8% of the area, while one-parent families are much less common here at 8.5%, which is well below the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
8.5% ▼ -51.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Balliang, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Balliang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20115/balliang/topic/family-households