We all live on a street somewhere in Australia (except for the odd few) but do we really know what goes on in the 100 or so households around us?
Aussies who live in a neighborhood of approximately 100 houses can expect the following;

someone gets married every 9 months,
there's 1 death every 7 months, and
1 birth every 14 weeks.
260 people live in the 100 homes, as well as
45 dogs and 27 cats.
There are 162 cars on the street, driven approximately two million kilometers per year.



Do you know what goes on on the 100 households around you?

And if you care to venture past the boundaries of your local 100 houses you'll find even more interesting facts. For instance...

If Australia was a city, at 23.5 million it would still only be the world’s 7th largest (after Tokyo, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Jakarta, Seoul and Delhi)
Western Australia grows by more people every 48 hours than Tasmania adds every year (500 people)
Within a decade, couple only households (currently 30% of all households) will be Australia’s most common household type – more numerous than couple and kids households (currently 33%).
Only 1 in 10 Australians use public transport to get to work and more people walk to work than catch a bus
More than half of all households (54%) have at least 2 cars, and there are almost as many passenger vehicles (13.3 million) as there are adults in Australia
1 in 10 households has a net worth exceeding $1.6 million, and 1% of households have wealth above $5 million.
In Australia there are almost 100,000 more women than men, with 6 out of our 8 states and territories experiencing a man drought.
2 in 5 Australians (40%) skip breakfast at least once a week, and half of them (20%) skip breakfast most days.
The average Australian spends 10 hours and 19 minutes each day on screen time and due to multi-screening this is achieved in just under 8 hours of linear time.



The average Australian spends 10 hours and 19 minutes each day on screen time.

 



Are Our Living Standards Declining?
You'd think from reading the above that us Aussies are on track for some pretty steady growth as far as our living standards go.  Well think again...

Ben Phillips, an Associate Professor at the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, thinks differently as detailed in is research notes on Trends in Household Living Standards in Australia: 1990 to 2016.  Professor Phillips finds that...
On average we find that living standards in Australia peaked in June 2012 with living standards increasing by 53.5 per cent since March 1990. Since this peak living standards have declined by 0.6 per cent to March 2016.

Over a 5 year period we find that growth in living standards are at their lowest point between 2010 and 2015 – even lower than the growth experienced during the last major Australian recession in the early 1990s. Australia only managed growth of 1.2 per cent during this period well down on the strongest period between December 2003 and December 2008 where living standards increased by 22.5 per cent.

Sources:

http://www.lifebuzz.com/australia/

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/20-mind-bending-statistics-about-life-in-modern-australia-2014-7

http://www.mccrindle.com.au/the-mccrindle-blog/australia-in-statistics

http://www.bandt.com.au/media/study-aussies-watch-spend-time-watching-tv-work

http://rsss.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Living_Standards_Mar_2016.pdf

 



 

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