1.7 ▼ -5.6%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Golden Beach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Golden Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living together in Golden Beach than in previous years, with a shift toward smaller households. The area is now dominated by very small homes, with nearly half of all households consisting of just one person.
1.7
▼ -5.6%
- 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 Golden Beach — lower than 94% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 1.7 people live in the typical home, which is well below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. This is reflected in the 44.6% of people living alone, a figure far above the national average.
44.6% ▲ +7.8%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.4%
- 2016: 40.7%
- 2021: 44.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Golden Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 people (48%) and 1 person (45%), with 3 people at 4%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 67.7%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 8.4%, which is well below both the state and national proportions.
8.4% ▼ -25.1%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Golden Beach, Couples without children is the majority at 66%; Couples with children is next at 22%.
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 Golden Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21054/golden-beach/topic/family-households