1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Belconnen · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Belconnen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes have become the defining feature of Belconnen, where only 1.9 people live in the typical home. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, creating a landscape where nearly 40% of residents live entirely on their own.
1.9
→ 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 Belconnen — lower than 89% of areas.
| Belconnen | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 2617, ACT | 2.4 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 40% of people in Belconnen live alone, a rate far above the 26% seen across Australia. Because of this, the area has much lower occupancy rates than most other places.
39.3% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Belconnen splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of local families are couples without children, making up 55.5% of the group. One-parent families make up 11.2% of the total, which is about the same as the Territory average.
11.2% ▼ -25.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Belconnen, Couples without children is the majority at 55%; Couples with 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 Belconnen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80024/belconnen/topic/family-households