1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Casterton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Casterton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Casterton than in most similar areas, with 41.7% of households being single-person homes. This contributes to a very small typical household size for the town. Most homes here are occupied by just one or two people.
1.9
▼ -9.5%
- 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 Casterton — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Casterton has only 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This small size is driven by the high number of single-person households, which are far more common here than in the rest of Victoria.
41.7% ▲ +17.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 41.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Casterton splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of families in Casterton are couples without children, making up 45.7% of the group. One-parent families account for 13.7%, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the national average.
13.7% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Casterton, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Casterton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20513/casterton/topic/family-households