2.1 ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Numurkah · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Numurkah
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over 11 percentage points more people live alone in Numurkah than in the typical Victorian or Australian home. This creates a distinct domestic landscape where small households are common and one-parent families are well above the national figure. The typical home here is smaller than most, with just 2.1 people per dwelling.
2.1
▲ +5.0%
- 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 Numurkah — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common, making up 36.6% of all households, which is far above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. This helps explain why the typical home has only 2.1 people, a number slightly below the national average and slightly up from 2011.
36.6% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Numurkah splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.6% of the local mix, which is well above the 14.1% national figure and has risen 4.4 points since 2011. Couples with children are the most common family type at 42.8%.
19.6% ▲ +29.1%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Numurkah, the largest group is Couples with children at 43%, followed by Couples without children (36%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Numurkah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215065/numurkah/topic/family-households