2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Benalla · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Benalla
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people have lived alone in Benalla since 2011, with 37.5% of households now consisting of a single person. This shift has contributed to a smaller typical home size than across the rest of the country. The area also has a notably higher proportion of single-parent families compared to national figures.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Benalla — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People living alone are far more common here than in the rest of Australia, and this figure has risen since 2011. Consequently, the typical home in Benalla holds 2.1 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures.
37.5% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Benalla splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19% of the local total, a figure that is well above the state and national averages. This proportion has risen by 1.5 percentage points since 2011.
19.0% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Benalla splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (40%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 19%.
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 Benalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214003/benalla/topic/family-households