2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Benalla · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Benalla
How families and households are made up across the area.
A rise in the number of people living alone has changed the local landscape since 2011, with Benalla now seeing a high proportion of single-person homes. This shift is reflected in the typical household, which is smaller than those in most other areas.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Benalla — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.1 people live in the typical home, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 36% of people in Benalla live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
36.0% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Benalla splits fairly evenly between 2 people (39%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.9% of the total, which is well above the national rate of 14.1%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 41.5%, followed closely by couples without children at 39.7%.
17.9% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Benalla splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families at 18%.
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 Benalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20204/benalla/topic/family-households