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LEARN MORE ABOUT .idIn Helensburgh, 42.9% of households were made up of family type 'couples with children' compared with 42.8% in Halfway Bush 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, Helensburgh's family data should be viewed in conjunction with Households, Household Size, Age Structure and Dwelling Type data.
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Derived from the Census questions:
'How is each person in the household related to you?'
Dominant groups
Analysis of the family types in Helensburgh in 2018 compared to Halfway Bush shows that there was a similar proportion of couple families with child(ren) as well as a lower proportion of one-parent families. Overall, 42.9% of total families were couple families with child(ren), and 13.4% were one-parent families, compared with 42.8% and 21.1% respectively for Halfway Bush.
There were a higher proportion of couples without children in Helensburgh, 43.7% compared to 36.1% in Halfway Bush.
Emerging groups
The number of families in Helensburgh increased by 9 between 2013 and 2018.
There were no major differences in Helensburgh between 2013 and 2018.
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