2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 86% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rural Balance · Section of State
Family & Households in Rural Balance
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Rural Balance than across the rest of Australia. This area has a strong focus on larger households, where the typical home holds 2.7 people and over half of all families include children.
2.7
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 0 areas
- 1.9: 0 areas
- 2.0: 0 areas
- 2.1: 0 areas
- 2.2: 1 area
- 2.3: 6 areas
- 2.4: 7 areas
- 2.5: 7 areas
- 2.6: 6 areas
- 2.7: 3 areas
- 2.8: 0 areas
- 2.9: 1 area
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 0 areas
- 3.2: 0 areas
- 3.3: 0 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 0 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
All section of state areas, 2021. The marker is Rural Balance — higher than 86% of areas.
| Rural Balance | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With only 19.8% of people living alone, this is much lower than the national figure of 25.6%. The typical home holds 2.7 people, which is much higher than most similar areas and has remained steady since 2011.
19.8% ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 89% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Rural Balance, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.7% of families here. Only 10.2% are one-parent families, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 14.1% and has barely changed over the last decade.
10.2% ▲ +7.5%
Lower than 82% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Rural Balance, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Rural Balance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS33/rural-balance/topic/family-households