2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Beech Forest · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Beech Forest
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households have become more common in Beech Forest, where the typical home now holds only two people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, and is largely driven by a very high number of people living on their own.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Beech Forest — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 44% of people here live alone, which is far above the 26% seen across Australia and among the highest for similar areas. This explains why the typical household size of 2.0 people is much lower than most other places.
43.5% ▲ +41.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Beech Forest, the largest group is 1 person at 49%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 13% of the local total, which is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the Victorian average. Most families here are couples, with 62.3% having children and 34.8% without.
13.0% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Beech Forest, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Beech Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20185/beech-forest/topic/family-households