2.3 ▲ +9.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Noorat · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Noorat
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 32% of homes in Noorat are occupied by a single person, which is well above the national figure. This high rate of solo living contrasts with the fact that nearly half of all local families are couples with children.
2.3
▲ +9.5%
- 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 Noorat — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Noorat holds 2.3 people, a figure that has risen slightly since 2011. While 36.9% of households have two people, the number of people living alone is higher than most areas at 32.1%.
32.1% ▼ -16.3%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 32.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Noorat splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (33%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.0% of the total, which is well above the Victorian average of 13.3%. This proportion has risen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011, alongside a high count of couples with children at 49.0%.
19.0% ▲ +15.9%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Noorat, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (32%) and One-parent families (19%).
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 Noorat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222065/noorat/topic/family-households