2.1 ▲ +16.7%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Trentham · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Trentham
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Trentham (L) are couples without children. This makes it a place where small households are common, though the typical number of people per home has risen slightly since 2011.
2.1
▲ +16.7%
- 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 Trentham — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. While 34.1% of people live alone—well above the 25.6% Australian average—this is actually 14 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
34.1% ▼ -28.4%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 47.6%
- 2016: 44.0%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Trentham, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 7.9% of the total, a figure that is well below the 14.1% national average. This is a notable drop from 2011, when the proportion of single-parent families was 15.6%.
7.9% ▼ -49.4%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Trentham, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (42%) and One-parent families (8%).
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 Trentham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221074/trentham/topic/family-households