2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mallacoota · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mallacoota
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define daily life in Mallacoota, where just 2.0 people live in the typical home. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community with a very high proportion of people living by themselves.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Mallacoota — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 40% of residents live alone, a figure that is far above the Australian average and has risen 14 points since 2011. This helps explain why the number of people per home has dropped to 2.0, which is much lower than most other areas.
39.8% ▲ +51.3%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mallacoota splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up nearly half of all families here. One-parent families are much less common than in most areas at 9.4%, a figure that has fallen 6.3 points since 2011.
9.4% ▼ -39.9%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mallacoota, Couples without children is the majority at 50%; Couples with children is next at 40%.
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 Mallacoota [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221044/mallacoota/topic/family-households