1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Skipton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Skipton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Skipton are occupied by just one person. This makes the town stand out for its high number of single-person households and a small typical household size of 1.9 people.
1.9
→ 0.0%
- 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 Skipton — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 46.3% of people here live alone, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home has only 1.9 people, which is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
46.3% ▲ +14.9%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.3%
- 2016: 41.3%
- 2021: 46.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Skipton, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 27.2% of the total, which is far above the state and national figures. This proportion has risen by 13 points since 2011, while couples with children account for 37.4% of families.
27.2% ▲ +86.6%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Skipton splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (37%) and Couples without children (36%), with One-parent families at 27%.
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 Skipton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222084/skipton/topic/family-households