2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Blairgowrie · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Blairgowrie
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Blairgowrie are couples without children. This makes the area stand out for its smaller household sizes, with a high proportion of people living alone compared to the rest of the state.
2.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Blairgowrie — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Small homes are the norm here, with just 2.1 people per household, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the 29.8% of residents who live alone, a figure well above the Victorian average.
29.8% ▼ -13.8%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Blairgowrie, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 4 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up 50.2% of families, while 41.1% are couples with children. One-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, making up only 8.2% of the total.
8.2% ▼ -23.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Blairgowrie, Couples without children is the majority at 50%; Couples with children is next at 41%.
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 Blairgowrie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20257/blairgowrie/topic/family-households