2.4 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Healesville · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Healesville
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Healesville than in most similar areas. Over half of all families here are couples with children, making it a place where larger households are common. This family-focused layout remains steady, with typical home sizes barely changing over the last decade.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 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 Healesville — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 2.4 people live in the typical home, which is higher than most similar areas. While 36.4% of households consist of two people, those living alone make up 27.7%, a figure slightly above the national average.
27.7% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Healesville, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 52.7%. One-parent families account for 15.7% of the total, which is a little above the Victorian average and represents a fall of 1.9 percentage points since 2011.
15.7% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Healesville, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Healesville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214009/healesville/topic/family-households