2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Borung · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Borung than in most similar areas, with 38.5% of households consisting of just one person. While the typical home holds about 2.4 people, the community is split between small single-person homes and larger family dwellings.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Borung — lower than 57% of areas.
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in the rest of Victoria or Australia, where the figures are around 26%. Half of all households consist of two people, while 26.9% contain four people.
2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
38.5% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Borung, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (33%) and 4 people (23%).
Family types and one-parent families.
There are no one-parent families in Borung, a figure far below the national average of 14.1%. Most families are couples, with 60% having children and 52.5% without.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Borung, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (44%) and Other families (6%).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Borung [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20305/borung/topic/family-households