2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swan Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Swan Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 30% of households in Swan Hill consist of just one person, a figure well above the national average. This contributes to a smaller typical home size than seen in most other Australian areas.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Swan Hill — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Swan Hill holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high proportion of single-person households, making up 30.6% of the total.
30.6% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 30.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Swan Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.5% of the total, which is much higher than most areas and well above the Victorian average of 13.3%. Other family types include couples with children at 52.0% and couples without children at 30.3%.
16.5% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Swan Hill, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Swan Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22405/swan-hill/topic/family-households