2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Heyfield · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Heyfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher numbers of people living alone than in most similar areas define the household makeup of Heyfield. The typical home here has 2.2 people, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Heyfield — lower than 64% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common, making up 37.8% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen since 2011. This trend helps explain why the typical home size has edged down to 2.2 people.
37.8% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 37.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Heyfield splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (34%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families are couples with children, while 17.1% are one-parent families. This last group is well above the Victorian average of 13.3%, though the figure has fallen slightly since 2011.
17.1% ▼ -13.3%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Heyfield, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (31%) 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 Heyfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215039/heyfield/topic/family-households