3.0 → 0.0%
Higher than 95% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.0
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.
Crowded homes are common in Rural Balance, where the typical household holds three people. This is a bit higher than the national figure and suggests a community where few people live on their own.
3.0
→ 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 95% of areas.
| Rural Balance | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 20.6% of people live alone, which is well below the Australian figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why home sizes here are among the highest for similar areas, with 9.2% of households containing six or more people.
20.6% ▲ +2.4%
Lower than 86% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 20.6%
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 32%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 58.9%. One-parent families account for 14.9% of the total, which is about the same as the national figure and has barely changed since 2011.
14.9% ▼ -4.7%
Higher than 55% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Rural Balance, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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/SOS73/rural-balance/topic/family-households