2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Balmattum · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Balmattum
How families and households are made up across the area.
Half of all households in Balmattum are made up of two people, marking this as the most common living arrangement. This is a small community where families with children make up over half of the family groups, though the typical home is slightly smaller than the national figure.
2.3
→ 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 Balmattum — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Balmattum holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. About 26.1% of people live alone, a rate that is about the same as across the state and country.
26.1% ▲ +6.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Balmattum, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52% of families here. The proportion of one-parent families is only 7.1%, which is well below the 14.1% national figure and the state figure of 13.3%.
7.1% ▲ +1.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Balmattum, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 40%.
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 Balmattum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20118/balmattum/topic/family-households