1.7 ▼ -22.7%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Golden Beach - Paradise Beach · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Golden Beach - Paradise Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people per home are found here than in almost any similar area, making Golden Beach - Paradise Beach (L) a place of small households. This is most evident in the high number of people living alone, which now accounts for 45.3% of all homes.
1.7
▼ -22.7%
- 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 Golden Beach - Paradise Beach — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly half of all residents (45.3%) live alone, a figure that is far above the national 25.6% and has risen 18 points since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home has just 1.7 people, which is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
45.3% ▲ +68.4%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 45.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Golden Beach - Paradise Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 people (47%) and 1 person (44%), with 3 people at 4%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 69.4%. One-parent families are much less common here than across Australia, accounting for only 6.8% of the total.
6.8% ▼ -22.6%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Golden Beach - Paradise Beach, Couples without children is the majority at 67%; Couples with children is next at 22%.
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 Golden Beach - Paradise Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221030/golden-beach-paradise-beach/topic/family-households