2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Barmah · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Barmah
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Barmah compared to the rest of the country. This trend drives a smaller typical household size, with only 2.0 people per home—well below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. These patterns suggest a place where single-person living is much more common than in most other areas.
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 Barmah — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 37.3% of households consist of just one person, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why homes here are smaller than usual, with 32.7% of households containing two people and only 10.9% holding four.
37.3% ▲ +10.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Barmah splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Among families, couples with children make up 42.1% and those without children account for 38.8%. One-parent families represent 13.8% of the total, which is higher than in most areas but about the same as the Victorian average.
13.8% ▼ -46.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Barmah splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families at 14%.
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 Barmah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20144/barmah/topic/family-households