2.9 —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Buckley · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Buckley
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become a defining feature of Buckley since 2011. The area is now shaped by a high number of families with children and very few people living on their own, with the typical home holding nearly three people.
2.9
—
- 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 Buckley — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 2.9 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5. Only 13.2% of residents live alone, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
13.2% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Buckley splits fairly evenly between 2 people (28%) and 4 people (25%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
The vast majority of families are couples with children, making up 70.5% of the total. One-parent families are rare at 3.7%, a figure well below the Victorian average of 13.3%.
3.7% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Buckley, Couples with children is the majority at 70%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Buckley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20369/buckley/topic/family-households