2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bonbeach · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of households in Bonbeach consist of just one person, which is well above the national figure. This makes the area stand out for its high number of single-person homes compared to other similar places.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Bonbeach — lower than 76% of areas.
Average household size.
The typical home in Bonbeach holds 2.2 people, a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. This smaller household size is driven by the 33.4% of people living alone, a figure well above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
33.4% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Bonbeach splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 14%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.5% of families here. One-parent families account for 12.9%, which is higher than in most similar areas but about the same as the Victorian average of 13.3%.
12.9% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Bonbeach, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Bonbeach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20278/bonbeach/topic/family-households