2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Daylesford - Hepburn Springs · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Daylesford - Hepburn Springs
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Daylesford - Hepburn Springs, where nearly 40% of people live alone. This creates a distinct living pattern compared to the rest of the state, with a strong tilt toward single-person homes and couples without children.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Daylesford - Hepburn Springs — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, a figure well below the national average of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of people living alone, which rose to 39.2% since 2011 and is now far above the Victorian figure.
39.2% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Daylesford - Hepburn Springs splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 17.3% of the area, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. While couples without children are the most common family type at 45.4%, one-parent homes remain more frequent here than in most other areas.
17.3% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Daylesford - Hepburn Springs, the largest group is Couples without children at 45%, followed by Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Daylesford - Hepburn Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215029/daylesford-hepburn-springs/topic/family-households