2.4 ▼ -14.3%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Harcourt · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Harcourt
How families and households are made up across the area.
Roughly half of all families in Harcourt are couples with children. This makes it a family-focused area, though the number of people living in each home has fallen since 2011.
2.4
▼ -14.3%
- 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 Harcourt — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home has 2.4 people, which is about the same as the state and national figures. However, the number of people living alone has jumped 12 points since 2011 to reach 27.7%.
27.7% ▲ +71.8%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Harcourt, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.3% of the total, a figure that is well above the Australian average and has risen by 9 points over the last decade.
18.3% ▲ +96.8%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Harcourt, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Harcourt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221032/harcourt/topic/family-households