2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yarram · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Yarram
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 39% of people in Yarram live alone, which is far more than the national figure. This high number of single-person homes means the area has much smaller households than most other parts of the country.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Yarram — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Yarram holds just 2.1 people, a figure a little below the Australian average of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 38.7% of households consist of only one person.
38.7% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 38.8%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Yarram splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.3% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other common family types include couples with children at 42.3% and couples without children at 38.8%.
17.3% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Yarram splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 17%.
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 Yarram [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22915/yarram/topic/family-households