2.0 ▼ -35.5%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Buxton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Buxton
How families and households are made up across the area.
A sharp rise in people living alone has reshaped Buxton (L) (Vic.) since 2011. The typical home now holds just 2.0 people, a figure well below the Victorian and national average of 2.5. This shift has led to a more fragmented household structure across the area.
2.0
▼ -35.5%
- 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 Buxton — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes now make up 35.0% of all households, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This is a significant increase from 2011, when only 8.7% of residents lived alone.
35.0% ▲ +300.0%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Buxton, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 47.4%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up only 9.0% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
9.0% ▲ +8.7%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Buxton splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (45%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Buxton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222013/buxton/topic/family-households