2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Apollo Bay · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Apollo Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Apollo Bay than in most similar areas. This has led to a small typical household size of just two people, which is well below the national figure. These patterns have remained steady over the last decade.
2.0
→ 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 Apollo Bay — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 41.2% of residents live alone, a figure far above the Australian average and one that has risen since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home in Apollo Bay holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
41.2% ▲ +4.8%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Apollo Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (37%), with 4 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 44.2% of families here, while couples without children account for 40.0%. One-parent families represent 14.9% of the total, which is a little above the state average and has risen by 3.1 points since 2011.
14.9% ▲ +26.0%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Apollo Bay splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families at 15%.
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 Apollo Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215004/apollo-bay/topic/family-households