1.7 ▼ -32.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Loch Sport · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Loch Sport
How families and households are made up across the area.
Loch Sport has some of the lowest household occupancy rates compared to similar areas. This is a place where nearly half of all homes are occupied by just one person, a figure that has climbed sharply over the last decade.
1.7
▼ -32.0%
- 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 Loch Sport — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes in Loch Sport hold just 1.7 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This trend is driven by a surge in people living alone, which rose 21 points since 2011 to reach 45.9%.
45.9% ▲ +83.5%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 45.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Loch Sport splits fairly evenly between 2 people (46%) and 1 person (46%), with 3 people at 6%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 67.5%. One-parent families account for 13.5% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
13.5% ▲ +5.5%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Loch Sport, Couples without children is the majority at 67%; Couples with children is next at 17%.
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 Loch Sport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221043/loch-sport/topic/family-households