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LEARN MORE ABOUT .idIn Mosgiel East, 32.6% of households were made up of family type 'couples with children' compared with 38.9% in Dunedin City 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, Mosgiel East'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 Mosgiel East in 2018 compared to Dunedin City shows that there was a lower proportion of couple families with child(ren) as well as a lower proportion of one-parent families. Overall, 32.6% of total families were couple families with child(ren), and 7.6% were one-parent families, compared with 38.9% and 15.8% respectively for Dunedin City.
There were a higher proportion of couples without children in Mosgiel East, 59.8% compared to 45.3% in Dunedin City.
Emerging groups
The number of families in Mosgiel East increased by 231 between 2013 and 2018.
The largest changes in family types in Mosgiel East between 2013 and 2018 were:
- Couple without children (+147 households)
- Couple with dependent children (+51 households)
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