3.5 —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 3.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Broughton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Broughton
How families and households are made up across the area.
An unusual 3.5 people per home makes Broughton one of the areas with the largest households in the region. This high number is well above the typical figure of 2.5 people seen across Victoria and Australia.
3.5
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- 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 Broughton — higher than 95% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living arrangements in Broughton are much larger than the state and national average, with 3.5 people per home.
Household size
View on map →Broughton splits fairly evenly between 3 people (36%) and 4 people (36%), with 2 people at 27%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 84.8%. In contrast, one-parent families are much less common here at 8.7%, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
8.7% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Broughton, Couples with children is the majority at 83%; Couples without children is next at 9%.
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 Broughton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20355/broughton/topic/family-households