2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rainbow · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Rainbow
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over 41% of households in Rainbow consist of just one person, which is among the highest proportions for similar areas. This trend toward smaller living arrangements means the town has a very small typical household size compared to the rest of the state.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Rainbow — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, a figure that is well below the national average of 2.5 and has fallen since 2011. This is driven by a high number of people living alone, which now accounts for 41.4% of all households.
41.4% ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Rainbow splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 44.2%, followed closely by couples with children at 43.3%. One-parent families account for 11.5% of the total, a figure that is a little below the national average and has fallen by 13 points since 2011.
11.5% ▼ -52.2%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Rainbow splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (43%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Rainbow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222077/rainbow/topic/family-households