2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Beechworth · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Beechworth
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller households are a defining feature of daily life in Beechworth, where the typical home holds only 2.2 people. This is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia, driven largely by a high number of people living on their own.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Beechworth — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 30.7% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 40.4% of all households.
30.7% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Beechworth, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 4 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of families here are couples with children, accounting for 48.5%. One-parent families make up 13.5%, which is higher than in most similar areas but about the same as the Victorian average.
13.5% ▼ -14.9%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Beechworth, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Beechworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20186/beechworth/topic/family-households