2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rushworth · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Rushworth
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-one percent of households in Rushworth are made up of people living alone. This is a very high proportion that makes the area stand out from the rest of the state, resulting in a much smaller typical household size than the national figure.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Rushworth — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home here, which is well below the Victorian and Australian figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 41.4% of residents live alone, one of the highest rates for this kind of area.
41.4% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Rushworth, the largest group is 1 person at 41%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 42.9%, followed closely by couples with children at 40.8%. One-parent families make up 14.1% of the total, which is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the state and national figures.
14.1% ▼ -7.7%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 16.6%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Rushworth splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (43%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 14%.
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 Rushworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22215/rushworth/topic/family-households