2.3 ▼ -23.3%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dinner Plain · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Dinner Plain
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of residents in Dinner Plain now live alone, a figure that has jumped 19 percentage points since 2011. This shift reflects a changing home life for the area, where the typical household size has shrunk from 3.0 to 2.3 people over the last decade.
2.3
▼ -23.3%
- 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 Dinner Plain — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are common here, making up 35.1% of households, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most frequent at 40.5%, while 16.2% of households have three people and another 16.2% have four.
35.1% ▲ +119.2%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Dinner Plain splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families in the area are couples without children, while 45.5% are couples with children. One-parent families make up 10.9% of the total, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
10.9% ▲ +75.5%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dinner Plain, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (42%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Dinner Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222018/dinner-plain/topic/family-households