2.1 ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Burnley · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Burnley
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of all homes in Burnley are occupied by people living alone. This trend makes the area feel much smaller in scale than other suburbs, with a typical household of just 2.1 people.
2.1
▲ +5.0%
- 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 Burnley — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, making up 36% of all homes, which is far above the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why the number of people per home is much lower than in most other areas.
36.0% ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Burnley splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.8% of families, while one-parent families account for 9.2%, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
9.2% ▲ +7.4%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Burnley, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 37%.
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 Burnley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20418/burnley/topic/family-households