1.9 ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Halls Gap · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Halls Gap
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people share a home in Halls Gap than in the rest of the country. This area is mostly made up of small households, with nearly 40% of homes housing just one person. It is a place where single-person living is much more common than the state or national norm.
1.9
▲ +5.6%
- 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 Halls Gap — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Small homes are the norm here, with only 1.9 people per household, which is well below the Victorian and national figures of 2.5. This is reflected in the high number of people living alone, at 39.4%, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%.
39.4% ▼ -4.7%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.4%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Halls Gap splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 7.8% of the area, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This is a decrease from 2011, while couples without children now form the largest family group at 45.8%.
7.8% ▼ -33.3%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Halls Gap splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (48%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 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 Halls Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222032/halls-gap/topic/family-households