2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bendigo · Urban Area
Family & Households in Bendigo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Higher numbers of single-person households and lone parents set Bendigo apart from most similar areas. While the typical home size is around the national figure, a growing number of people are living on their own.
2.4
→ 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 Bendigo — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 29.7% of people in Bendigo live alone, which is well above the Victorian figure of 25.9% and higher than most other areas. This trend has risen by 2.1 percentage points since 2011, while the usual household size has stayed steady at 2.4 people.
29.7% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 63% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bendigo splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.7% of the total, a figure well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 53.4%.
17.7% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 65% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bendigo, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2004/bendigo/topic/family-households