2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Avoca · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Avoca
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher proportion of people live alone in Avoca compared to the rest of the state. This trend has grown since 2011, and the town now has a smaller typical household size than most other areas.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Avoca — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 38.5% of people here live alone, which is 13 percentage points higher than the Victorian and national figures. Because of this, the typical home in Avoca has just 2.1 people, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
38.5% ▲ +39.8%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Avoca splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (38%), with 4 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.2% of the total, which is well above the state and national averages. Most families are couples, with 43.6% having children and 37.2% without.
18.2% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Avoca, the largest group is Couples with children at 43%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Avoca [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215005/avoca/topic/family-households