2.0 ▼ -31.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Peterborough · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Peterborough
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Peterborough than the state average, with 39% of households consisting of just one person. This trend has grown significantly since 2011, meaning the area now has a much lower number of people per home than most other parts of Australia.
2.0
▼ -31.0%
- 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 Peterborough — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a sharp rise in single-person households, which jumped from 14.7% in 2011 to 39% in 2021.
39.0% ▲ +165.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Peterborough, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 4 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up just 6.1% of the total, a figure well below the Victorian average of 13.3%. Half of all families here are couples without children, while 44.6% are couples with children.
6.1% ▼ -17.5%
Lower than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Peterborough, the largest group is Couples without children at 50%, followed by Couples with children (44%) and One-parent families (6%).
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 Peterborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222070/peterborough/topic/family-households