2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swan Hill · Urban Area
Family & Households in Swan Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Swan Hill than in most similar areas. This shift is reflected in a typical home size of 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure and lower than it was in 2011.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Swan Hill — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are common here, making up 30.6% of all households, a figure well above the national average. This rise in people living alone helps explain why the typical home size has dropped from 2.5 to 2.3 people since 2011.
30.6% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 72% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 30.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Swan Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52% of local families, while 16.5% are one-parent families. This last group is well above the Victorian average, though the figure has fallen slightly since 2011.
16.5% ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 51% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Swan Hill, 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 Swan Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2017/swan-hill/topic/family-households