2.3 ▼ -11.5%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Colac · Urban Area
Family & Households in Colac
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Colac are couples with children, making them the most common household type. While family life is central, the area is seeing a strong rise in people living on their own. This shift has pushed the typical number of people per home down to 2.3, which is lower than the national figure.
2.3
▼ -11.5%
- 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 Colac — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A striking 34.3% of people in Colac now live alone, a figure that is well above the Victorian average and has jumped 13 points since 2011. This trend helps explain why the typical home here has fewer people than most other areas.
34.3% ▲ +58.3%
Higher than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Colac splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.0% of the total, which is a little above the national figure and has risen since 2011. This group sits alongside couples with children (52.1%) and couples without children (30.3%) to form the bulk of the local family structure.
16.0% ▲ +27.2%
Lower than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Colac, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Colac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2006/colac/topic/family-households