2.4 ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Briagolong · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Briagolong
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Briagolong are couples with children. This makes the area a family-focused hub where households are slightly larger than in many similar areas. The typical home here holds about 2.4 people, a figure that has grown since 2011.
2.4
▲ +9.1%
- 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 Briagolong — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 29.2% of people live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Most homes are small, with 37.3% containing two people and 29.2% housing just one person.
29.2% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Briagolong, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.6% of the total, a figure that has risen by 7.9 points since 2011. This is well above the Victorian average of 13.3%.
16.6% ▲ +90.3%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Briagolong, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Briagolong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221009/briagolong/topic/family-households