2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Clunes · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Clunes
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single people are a prominent part of daily life in Clunes, where over a third of all homes are occupied by one person. This is much higher than in most other similar areas, meaning the community has a notably higher proportion of solo dwellers than the typical Victorian town.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Clunes — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Clunes holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This smaller household size is driven by the 34.3% of residents living alone, a figure well above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
34.3% ▲ +12.1%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Clunes splits fairly evenly between 2 people (39%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.9% of the local total, which is well above the 14.1% national average. Couples with children are the most common family type at 42.6%, followed by couples without children at 38.2%.
17.9% ▼ -12.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Clunes splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) 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 Clunes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20580/clunes/topic/family-households