2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eaglehawk · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eaglehawk
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over 35% of people in Eaglehawk live alone, a figure far above the national average. This means the area has a much higher proportion of single-person households than most other similar places. It is a community where small households and one-parent families are more common than in the rest of the state.
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 Eaglehawk — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of people living alone, who make up 35.9% of all households.
35.9% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.1%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 35.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Eaglehawk splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.2% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Nearly half of all families here are couples with children, accounting for 47.9%.
21.2% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eaglehawk, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (29%) and One-parent families (21%).
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 Eaglehawk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20823/eaglehawk/topic/family-households