2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kaniva · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kaniva
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of people in Kaniva live alone, which is far higher than the figures for Victoria and Australia. This makes the area much smaller in terms of typical household size than most other places. Overall, homes here are smaller and more likely to be occupied by a single person.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Kaniva — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Kaniva has just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This trend is driven by a rise in single-person households, which now make up 39.4% of the area.
39.4% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 42.3%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kaniva splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children and those without children are almost equally common, each making up about 41% of families. One-parent families account for 15.8%, a figure that is a little above the state and national averages.
15.8% ▲ +22.1%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Kaniva splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (42%), with One-parent families at 16%.
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 Kaniva [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221037/kaniva/topic/family-households