2.3 ▲ +15.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Balnarring Beach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Balnarring Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller home sizes than most similar areas define Balnarring Beach, where the typical home holds just 2.3 people. This is a little below the national figure of 2.5. The area is largely made up of couples, with nearly half of all households consisting of two people.
2.3
▲ +15.0%
- 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 Balnarring Beach — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Two-person homes are common here, making up 48.9% of all households. About a quarter of residents live alone, which is about the same as the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
25.0% ▼ -27.2%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Balnarring Beach, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 44.9%, followed closely by couples with children at 41.4%. One-parent families make up 11.9% of the total, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.9% ▲ +65.4%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Balnarring Beach splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Balnarring Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20121/balnarring-beach/topic/family-households