2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 71% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
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 in the rest of Australia. This area is shaped by larger households, with a typical home holding 2.6 people and over half of all families consisting of couples raising children.
2.6
▼ -3.7%
- 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 71% of areas.
| Rural Balance | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much more crowded than in most similar areas, though the typical size has edged down from 2.7 people in 2011 to 2.6. Only 20.4% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
20.4% ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 86% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 20.4%
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 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 56.3%, while one-parent families are much less common than in most areas. At 8.5%, the share of single-parent homes is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
8.5% ▼ -3.0%
Lower than 99% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 8.5%
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 34%.
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/SOS53/rural-balance/topic/family-households