2.0 ▲ +11.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Buller · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Buller
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Mount Buller are occupied by people living alone, which is far higher than the national figure. This makes the area very different from most others, as the typical home holds just two people. These patterns point to a non-traditional housing mix for the region.
2.0
▲ +11.1%
- 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 Mount Buller — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 48.8% of people here live alone, one of the highest rates for any area of this type. This helps explain why the usual household size of 2.0 people is well below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5.
48.8% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.6%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Buller, the largest group is 1 person at 50%, followed by 2 people (18%) and 6 or more (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.2% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Couples without children are the most common family type at 48.5%, followed by couples with children at 33.3%.
18.2% ▲ +12.1%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Buller, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (33%) and One-parent families (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 Mount Buller [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21778/mount-buller/topic/family-households