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.
Venus Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Venus Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households have become the norm in Venus Bay, where 41.6% of homes are now occupied by just one person. This makes the area stand out for its high number of single-person dwellings compared to the rest of the state and nation.
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 Venus Bay — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People per home is well below the Victorian and national figures, sitting at just 1.8. This trend is driven by the fact that 41.6% of residents live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%.
41.6% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.2%
- 2016: 44.0%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Venus Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 people (42%) and 1 person (42%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families here are couples without children, accounting for 52.4% of the group. One-parent families make up 12.3% of the total, which is about the same as the state figure.
12.3% ▼ -20.7%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Venus Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 52%; Couples with children is next at 35%.
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 Venus Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22626/venus-bay/topic/family-households