2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bairnsdale · Urban Area
Family & Households in Bairnsdale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Bairnsdale has a much higher proportion of people living alone than most similar areas. This trend is a key feature of the local community, with 32.3% of households consisting of just one person. This contributes to a lower typical household size compared to the state and national figures.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 2.0: 2 areas
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 11 areas
- 2.3: 27 areas
- 2.4: 24 areas
- 2.5: 27 areas
- 2.6: 9 areas
- 2.7: 5 areas
- 2.8: 3 areas
- 2.9: 0 areas
- 3.0: 1 area
- 3.1: 0 areas
- 3.2: 0 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All urban area areas, 2021. The marker is Bairnsdale — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 32.3% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why Bairnsdale has fewer people per home (2.3) than the Victoria average of 2.5.
32.3% ▲ +3.9%
Higher than 82% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bairnsdale splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.8% of the local total, a figure well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples with children are the most common family type at 48.6%.
17.8% ▼ 0.0%
Higher than 66% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bairnsdale, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Bairnsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2002/bairnsdale/topic/family-households