2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ararat · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Ararat
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Ararat than in 2011, contributing to a trend of smaller households. This shift is most clear in the 35.6% of homes now occupied by just one person, a figure well above the national average.
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 Ararat — lower than 64% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Ararat holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure and has edged down since 2011. This is reflected in the high number of single-person households, with 35.6% of people living alone.
35.6% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ararat splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.7% of the local total, a figure that is well above the Victorian average and has risen by 2.7 percentage points since 2011. Couples with children account for 45.3% of families.
19.7% ▲ +16.2%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ararat, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Ararat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214001/ararat/topic/family-households