2.3 ▼ -20.7%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lake Boga · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Lake Boga
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Lake Boga than in previous years, which has changed the makeup of local homes. Most households now consist of just one or two people, with the typical home housing 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -20.7%
- 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 Lake Boga — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes rose by 9.1 percentage points since 2011 to reach 27.9%, a figure slightly above the national average. This trend helps explain why the typical number of people per home has fallen to 2.3, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
27.9% ▲ +48.6%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 27.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lake Boga, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 4 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.6% of families here, while one-parent families account for 11.1%. This last group is well below the national average of 14.1%, though the proportion has risen by 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
11.1% ▲ +23.6%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lake Boga, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without 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 Lake Boga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221039/lake-boga/topic/family-households