2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Numurkah · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Numurkah
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Numurkah than in most similar areas, with 33.6% of households run by a single person. This shift towards smaller living arrangements means the typical home here is smaller than the state average. The area also sees a much higher rate of one-parent families compared to the rest of the country.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Numurkah — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Numurkah are generally smaller, with only 2.2 people per home compared to 2.5 across Australia. This is driven by the high number of single-person households, which is well above the Victorian figure of 25.9%.
33.6% ▲ +6.9%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Numurkah splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.4% of the total, a figure well above both the state and national averages. Other family types include couples with children at 45.1% and couples without children at 35.5%.
18.4% ▲ +32.4%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Numurkah, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (35%) 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 Numurkah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21984/numurkah/topic/family-households