2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nhill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Nhill
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Nhill than in most similar areas. This is a key feature of the town, with 31.4% of households consisting of just one person. This trend helps explain why the typical home here has fewer people in it than the state or national figure.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 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 Nhill — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The usual home in Nhill has 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victorian and Australian figures of 2.5. While 38.2% of homes house two people, those living alone make up 31.4% of the total, a figure well above the national average.
31.4% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Nhill, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of all families here are couples with children, making up 53% of the group. One-parent families account for 10.9%, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
10.9% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Nhill, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without 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 Nhill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21939/nhill/topic/family-households