1.8 ▼ -21.7%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Benambra · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Benambra
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people share a home in Benambra than is typical across the country, with only 1.8 people per household. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community where small households and people living alone are very common.
1.8
▼ -21.7%
- 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 Benambra — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Small homes are the norm here, as 38.5% of people live alone—a figure far above the Victorian average of 25.9%. Two-person households are the most common, making up 42.3% of the total.
38.5% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Benambra splits fairly evenly between 2 people (46%) and 1 person (42%), with 4 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 59.8%. One-parent families account for 15.5% of the total, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
15.5% ▲ +27.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Benambra, Couples without children is the majority at 60%; Couples with children is next at 25%.
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 Benambra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20205/benambra/topic/family-households