2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Barwon Downs · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Barwon Downs
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Barwon Downs than in most similar areas. This trend contributes to a small typical household size of just 2.1 people, which is lower than both the Victorian and national figures.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Barwon Downs — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 42.4% of people here live by themselves, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes are smaller, with 44.1% of households containing just two people.
42.4% ▲ +68.3%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 42.4%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Barwon Downs splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 4.4% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. Most families are couples, with 51.6% having children and 42.9% without.
4.4% ▼ -44.3%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Barwon Downs, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (4%).
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 Barwon Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20161/barwon-downs/topic/family-households