2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
St Arnaud · Urban Centre
Family & Households in St Arnaud
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in St Arnaud are occupied by just one person. This makes the town stand out as a place where many people live alone, which has contributed to the typical home size shrinking to just 2.0 people.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 St Arnaud — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are common here, making up 44.2% of all homes—a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This proportion has risen 7.5 percentage points since 2011, which helps explain why the number of people per home is now well below the Victorian figure.
44.2% ▲ +20.3%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.7%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In St Arnaud, the largest group is 1 person at 43%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the most common family type at 44.3%, though one-parent families are more frequent here than in most areas. At 17.2%, the proportion of one-parent families is well above the Australian figure of 14.1%.
17.2% ▲ +4.9%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In St Arnaud, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without 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 St Arnaud [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215079/st-arnaud/topic/family-households