1.8 ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bendoc · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Bendoc
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Bendoc, where nearly half of all homes are occupied by a single person. This makes the area's typical home much smaller than those in the rest of the state, reflecting a community where living alone is far more common than the national average.
1.8
▼ -14.3%
- 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 Bendoc — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A striking 44.2% of people here live alone, which is far above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. Because of this, Bendoc has just 1.8 people per home, well below the Australian typical of 2.5.
44.2% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.3%
- 2016: 46.5%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bendoc splits fairly evenly between 1 person (47%) and 2 people (47%), with 3 people at 6%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of all families in the area are couples without children. One-parent families make up 14.7% of the total, which is a little above the state average.
14.7% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bendoc, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 28%.
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 Bendoc [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20209/bendoc/topic/family-households