2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Castlemaine · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Castlemaine
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of households in Castlemaine are people living alone, which is far more than the national figure. This shift towards smaller homes means the typical home here has just 2.0 people, making it much smaller than the usual Australian household.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Castlemaine — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 39.7% of households consisting of one person. This helps explain why the typical home size is well below the Victorian average of 2.5 people.
39.7% ▲ +6.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Castlemaine splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 18.1% of the total, a figure that is well above both the state and national averages. Couples with children are the most common family type at 42.9%.
18.1% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Castlemaine splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (43%) and Couples without children (38%), with One-parent families at 18%.
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 Castlemaine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20516/castlemaine/topic/family-households