2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brunswick · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brunswick
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households dominate Brunswick, where 34.2% of people live alone. This is a much higher rate than most other areas and contributes to the neighborhood having a small typical home size. The area is characterized by a high proportion of single-person and two-person dwellings.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Brunswick — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People per home in Brunswick is just 2.1, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 34.2% of residents live alone, a rate well above the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
34.2% ▲ +17.8%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Brunswick splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest family group at 45.5%, followed closely by couples without children at 41.7%. One-parent families account for 10.2% of the total, which is well below the national average of 14.1%.
10.2% ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Brunswick splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (46%) and Couples without children (42%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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 Brunswick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20361/brunswick/topic/family-households