2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Minyip · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Minyip
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people have lived alone in Minyip since 2011, contributing to a shift in how the town's households are structured. This is a small community where the typical home now holds just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Minyip — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 38.5% of households consisting of one person—a figure far above the Victorian average. This trend has risen since 2011 and helps explain why the typical home size is much lower than in most other areas.
38.5% ▲ +12.2%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Minyip splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.8% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 5.4 percentage points since 2011, while couples without children are the most common family type at 42.9%.
19.8% ▲ +37.7%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Minyip, the largest group is Couples without children at 43%, followed by Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Minyip [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222055/minyip/topic/family-households