1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rushworth · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Rushworth
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Rushworth are occupied by just one person, making it an area with very small households. This trend has grown significantly since 2011, leaving the town with a typical home size that is well below the national figure.
1.9
▼ -9.5%
- 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 Rushworth — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Small households are common here, with only 1.9 people per home compared to the typical 2.5 across Australia. This is driven by a high number of people living alone, which now accounts for 45.0% of households—a figure that is far above the Victorian average.
45.0% ▲ +67.1%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 40.7%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Rushworth, the largest group is 1 person at 45%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 42.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families have increased to 16.5% since 2011, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
16.5% ▲ +53.7%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Rushworth splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (42%) and Couples with children (40%), with One-parent families 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 Rushworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221062/rushworth/topic/family-households