1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.6
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bearii · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live in each home in Bearii than in most other similar areas. This is a sparsely populated place where small households are the norm, with many residents living on their own.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Bearii — lower than 89% of areas.
Average household size.
With 35.9% of people living alone, this is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home in Bearii has only 1.9 people, which is well below the Victorian average of 2.5.
1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
35.9% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Bearii, 2 people is the majority at 55%; 1 person is next at 33%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples without children, making up 62.8% of the total. One-parent families account for 10.6%, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
10.6% ▼ -34.8%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Bearii, Couples without children is the majority at 68%; Couples with children is next at 21%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Bearii [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20178/bearii/topic/family-households