2.4 —
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bendigo · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Bendigo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Bendigo than in the typical Victorian or Australian home. This trend is a key feature of the area, where 30% of households are single-person dwellings. While home sizes are generally standard, the mix of people living together differs from the state average.
2.4
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- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Bendigo — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 30% of people in Bendigo live alone, which is well above the state and national figures. The typical home holds 2.4 people, a figure that is about the same as the rest of the country.
30.0% —
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
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.
Single-parent families make up 18% of the total, a rate well above the Victorian and Australian averages. Most families here are couples with children, who account for 53.1% of the total.
18.0% —
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
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/ucl/UCL203002/bendigo/topic/family-households