2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
West Bendigo · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in West Bendigo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller living arrangements have become more common in West Bendigo, where over a third of people now live alone. This shift means the typical home here is smaller than those in most other areas, with only 2.2 people per household.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 West Bendigo — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is much more common here than in most areas, with 33.8% of households consisting of one person. This is well above the national figure of 25.6% and helps explain why the typical home size is slightly below the state average.
33.8% ▲ +53.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →West Bendigo splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (33%), with 4 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.8% of the local total, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria. Other family types include couples with children at 45.3% and couples without children at 34.1%.
18.8% ▼ -5.8%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In West Bendigo, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (19%).
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 West Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22754/west-bendigo/topic/family-households