2.5 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gunnedah · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Gunnedah
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are more common in Gunnedah than in most similar areas. Families with children make up over half of all households here, while the typical home holds 2.5 people. This pattern has remained steady for a decade.
2.5
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Gunnedah — higher than 71% of areas.
| Gunnedah | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Gunnedah holds 2.5 people, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. About 27.7% of residents live alone, which is a little above the national figure of 25.6%.
27.7% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gunnedah, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.7% of families in the area. One-parent families account for 16.0% of the total, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the 14.1% national average.
16.0% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gunnedah, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Gunnedah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA13550/gunnedah/topic/family-households