1.9 ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coleraine · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Coleraine
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Coleraine are occupied by just one person, a rate far above the national figure. This trend has grown significantly over the last decade, leaving the town with much smaller households than the Victorian average.
1.9
▼ -17.4%
- 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 Coleraine — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 47% of residents live alone, which is 21 percentage points higher than across Victoria. This has pushed the typical number of people per home down to 1.9, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
46.5% ▲ +45.8%
Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 41.1%
- 2021: 46.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coleraine, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (37%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.1% of the local total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Couples without children are the most common family type at 40.3%.
21.1% ▼ -5.6%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Coleraine splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (40%) and Couples with children (38%), 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 Coleraine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221020/coleraine/topic/family-households