2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Clunes · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Clunes
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 39% of people live alone in Clunes (L) (Vic.), a figure far above the national average. This trend has grown over the last decade, meaning the area now has much smaller households than most other parts of the country.
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 Clunes — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds just 2.0 people, which is well below the Victorian and national figure of 2.5. This drop is driven by a rise in one-person households, which now make up 38.9% of all homes.
38.9% ▲ +20.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 36.3%
- 2021: 38.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Clunes splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.5% of the total, a figure that is well above both the state and national averages. This has risen by 5.9 percentage points since 2011, while couples without children are the most common family type at 40.2%.
21.5% ▲ +37.5%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Clunes splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (40%) and Couples with children (37%), with One-parent families at 21%.
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 Clunes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221019/clunes/topic/family-households