2.0 ▼ -31.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ouyen · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Ouyen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Ouyen than in most other similar areas, with 40.6% of households consisting of just one person. This has led to a shift in the town's layout, as the typical home now holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -31.0%
- 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 Ouyen — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households have jumped by 25 percentage points since 2011. This trend helps explain why the average home size has fallen from 2.9 people to just 2.0 in the last decade.
40.6% ▲ +156.5%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ouyen splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46% of families here, while 40.4% are couples without children. One-parent families represent 12.1% of the total, a figure that is a little below the national average.
12.1% ▲ +40.1%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ouyen, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Ouyen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215067/ouyen/topic/family-households