2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Orbost · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Orbost
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Orbost than in the rest of the state, with 40.8% of households consisting of just one person. This gap helps explain why the typical home here is smaller than average, holding only 2.1 people compared to the national figure of 2.5.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Orbost — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 41% of residents live alone, which is among the highest proportion for areas of this type. This is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia, and it contributes to a much lower number of people per home than most other areas.
40.8% ▲ +21.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 40.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Orbost splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.3% of the total, a figure well above the 14.1% national average. Couples with children are the most common family type at 44%, followed by couples without children at 36.7%.
18.3% ▼ -6.1%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Orbost, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (37%) 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 Orbost [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22014/orbost/topic/family-households