2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Beauty - Tawonga · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mount Beauty - Tawonga
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living together in Mount Beauty - Tawonga, with the typical household size shrinking since 2011. Single-person homes are now much more common than the state average, while the number of one-parent families has fallen significantly. This shift describes a place where smaller, more independent living arrangements are becoming the norm.
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 Mount Beauty - Tawonga — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Over a third of residents (34.4%) live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home in the area has only 2.1 people, a number that is a little below the Victorian average and has dropped since 2011.
34.4% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Beauty - Tawonga, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (34%) and 4 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 47.9% of families, while those without children account for 41.1%. One-parent families make up 9.9% of the total, a figure that is much lower than most areas and has fallen 6.6 points since 2011.
9.9% ▼ -39.9%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Beauty - Tawonga, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Mount Beauty - Tawonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215059/mount-beauty-tawonga/topic/family-households