1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hopetoun · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Hopetoun
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Hopetoun than in most other similar areas. This makes for a smaller average household size, with 42.2% of homes containing just one person.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 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 Hopetoun — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 1.9 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This trend has edged down since 2011, and 42.2% of households are now single-person homes, a figure far above the Victorian average.
42.2% ▲ +9.2%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.7%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 42.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hopetoun splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the biggest group at 54.5%, while one-parent families are much lower than most areas at 10.4%. This last figure has fallen by 10 percentage points since 2011.
10.4% ▼ -49.7%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hopetoun, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Hopetoun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221033/hopetoun/topic/family-households