2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ouyen · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ouyen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Ouyen than in most similar areas. This is a small-household community where the typical home holds just 2.1 people, 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 Ouyen — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, making up 37.4% of all homes. This is far above the 25.6% national figure, and it helps explain why the typical home size is much lower than in most areas.
37.4% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 37.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ouyen splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of all families in Ouyen are couples with children, while 40.8% are couples without. One-parent families make up 10.9% of the total, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
10.9% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ouyen, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Ouyen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22020/ouyen/topic/family-households