2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Morwell · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Morwell
How families and households are made up across the area.
A growing number of people living alone and in single-parent homes has shifted the local landscape since 2011. Morwell is now seeing a much higher rate of one-person households than the national average. This trend has pushed the typical number of people per home down to 2.2.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Morwell — lower than 64% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 38% of homes are occupied by just one person, a figure far above the 25.6% national average. This trend has grown since 2011 and helps explain why the typical home in Morwell holds fewer people than those in most other areas.
38.0% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Morwell splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.5% of the local total, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This figure has risen by 8.2 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children remain the largest group at 43.3%.
25.5% ▲ +47.3%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 25.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Morwell, the largest group is Couples with children at 43%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (26%).
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 Morwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213011/morwell/topic/family-households