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LEARN MORE ABOUT .idIn Dunedin City, 38.9% of households were made up of family type 'couples with children' compared with 38.9% in Brighton in 2018.
Households with Children require different services and facilities than other household types, and their needs change as both adults and children age. When many families in an area are at the same stage in their individual lifecycles, it creates a suburb lifecycle. Knowing where a suburb is in a cycle of change helps planners make evidence-based decisions about the demand for services both now and in the future.
To continue building the story, Dunedin City's family data should be viewed in conjunction with Households, Household Size, Age Structure and Dwelling Type data.
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Analysis of the family types in Dunedin City in 2018 compared to Brighton shows that there was a similar proportion of couple families with child(ren) as well as a similar proportion of one-parent families. Overall, 38.9% of total families were couple families with child(ren), and 15.8% were one-parent families, compared with 38.9% and 16.0% respectively for Brighton.
There were a similar proportion of couples without children in Dunedin City, 45.3% compared to 45.1% in Brighton.
The number of families in Dunedin City increased by 1,395 between 2013 and 2018.
The largest changes in family types in Dunedin City between 2013 and 2018 were:
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