1.8 → 0.0%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Port Welshpool · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Port Welshpool
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 38% of people live alone in Port Welshpool, a figure far above the national average. This creates a very small typical household size for the area, with most homes housing only one or two people.
1.8
→ 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 Port Welshpool — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much smaller than average, with only 1.8 people per dwelling compared to 2.5 nationally. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, which make up 37.7% of the area.
37.7% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.8%
- 2016: 45.7%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Port Welshpool, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 1 person (40%) and 4 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families are couples without children, accounting for 65.6% of the total. One-parent families make up 9.6% of the mix, which is well below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
9.6% ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Port Welshpool, Couples without children is the majority at 66%; Couples with children is next at 25%.
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 Port Welshpool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22108/port-welshpool/topic/family-households