2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Creswick · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Creswick
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living in each home in Creswick than in 2011. This shift is driven by a high number of single-person households, with 36% of residents now living alone. This is far above the national figure and makes the area's homes smaller than most.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Creswick — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Creswick holds 2.1 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures. This is consistent with the fact that 36% of people live alone, a figure that has risen since 2011 and is much higher than in most areas.
36.0% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 38.8%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Creswick splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of families here are couples with children (46.6%), while 37.3% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 15.4% of the total, which is a little above the national figure and has risen by 4.8 percentage points since 2011.
15.4% ▲ +45.4%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Creswick, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (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 Creswick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215028/creswick/topic/family-households