Bathgate Park - Hillside-Portsmouth Drive
Family types
In Bathgate Park - Hillside-Portsmouth Drive, 25.2% of households were made up of family type 'couples with children' compared with 38.2% in the Mount Cargill 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, Bathgate Park - Hillside-Portsmouth Drive's family data should be viewed in conjunction with Households, Household Size, Age Structure and Dwelling Type data.
Derived from the Census questions:
'How is each person in the household related to you?'
Total families
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings (opens a new window)
2006 and 2018. Compiled and presented in profile.id by .id (opens a new window)
(informed decisions).
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the family types in Bathgate Park - Hillside-Portsmouth Drive in 2018 compared to the Mount Cargill shows that there was a lower proportion of couple families with child(ren) as well as a higher proportion of one-parent families. Overall, 25.2% of total families were couple families with child(ren), and 34.0% were one-parent families, compared with 38.2% and 10.1% respectively for the Mount Cargill.
There were a lower proportion of couples without children in Bathgate Park - Hillside-Portsmouth Drive, 40.9% compared to 51.8% in the Mount Cargill.
Emerging groups
The number of families in Bathgate Park - Hillside-Portsmouth Drive decreased by 21 between 2006 and 2018.
There were no major differences in Bathgate Park - Hillside-Portsmouth Drive between 2006 and 2018.