1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Burrumbeet · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher proportion of people live alone in Burrumbeet than in the rest of the country. This creates a distinct housing pattern where the typical home is much smaller than the state or national average, with only 1.9 people per household.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Burrumbeet — lower than 89% of areas.
Average household size.
Nearly 45% of residents live by themselves, a figure far above the 26% seen across Australia. This helps explain why Burrumbeet has a typical household size well below the Victorian average.
1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
44.5% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Burrumbeet, the largest group is 1 person at 45%, followed by 2 people (37%) and 4 people (8%).
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 6.4% of the area, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. Most local families are couples, with 47.4% having children and 46.8% without.
6.4% ▼ -20.1%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Burrumbeet splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (47%) and Couples without children (46%), with One-parent families at 6%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Burrumbeet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20425/burrumbeet/topic/family-households