2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kerang · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Kerang
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Kerang than in most similar areas. This trend is seen in the small typical household size, with only 2.1 people per home, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Kerang — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 38.6% of households in Kerang are people living alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why typical homes are smaller than in most areas.
38.6% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.7%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 38.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kerang splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (35%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.2% of the total, which is well above the state figure of 13.3%. Other families are less common, with couples with children accounting for 46.6% of the mix.
17.2% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kerang, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Kerang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21328/kerang/topic/family-households