2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brunswick East · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brunswick East
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Brunswick East compared to the rest of the country. This trend is reflected in the small household sizes, with the typical home holding just two people.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Brunswick East — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 38.8% of households consisting of one person—far above the national figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the average of 2.0 people per home is well below the typical 2.5 seen across Australia.
38.8% ▲ +32.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Brunswick East splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 44.8%, while 41.7% are couples with children. One-parent families account for 11.0% of the total, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
11.0% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Brunswick East splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 11%.
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 East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20362/brunswick-east/topic/family-households