1.8 ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Howqua Inlet · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Howqua Inlet
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher rate of people living alone than the national average defines Howqua Inlet, where 40% of households are single-person homes. This is one of the highest proportions of solo dwellers for an area of its type, creating a small community of mostly one or two-person homes.
1.8
▼ -14.3%
- 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 Howqua Inlet — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much smaller than typical Victorian households, with only 1.8 people per home. This is well below the state and national figure of 2.5, with 43.3% of homes housing two people and 40% housing just one.
40.0% ▲ +34.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Howqua Inlet, 2 people is the majority at 52%; 1 person is next at 48%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
No one-parent families live here, a figure far below the 14.1% national average. Most families consist of couples without children, who make up 54.3% of the total.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Howqua Inlet, Couples without children is the majority at 66%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Howqua Inlet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21213/howqua-inlet/topic/family-households