2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ballan · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Ballan
How families and households are made up across the area.
Ballan sits around the middle for most family and household measures compared to similar areas. While typical home sizes are slightly smaller than the state average, the area has a notably high number of people living alone. Most homes are occupied by couples with children.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Ballan — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 30% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This has contributed to a slight drop in home size, with the typical home now holding 2.3 people.
30.0% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ballan, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.8% of families here. Single-parent families account for 16.4%, a figure that has risen since 2011 and sits well above the Victorian average of 13.3%.
16.4% ▲ +24.7%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ballan, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Ballan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215006/ballan/topic/family-households