1.8 ▼ -10.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coober Pedy · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Coober Pedy
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in Coober Pedy are occupied by just one person, making it a place where living alone is the norm. This trend has grown since 2011 and leaves the area with far fewer people per household than the rest of the country.
1.8
▼ -10.0%
- 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 Coober Pedy — lower than 99% of areas.
| Coober Pedy | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| Rest of SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A striking 53.4% of residents live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home has only 1.8 people, which is well below the South Australian figure of 2.4.
53.4% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 47.7%
- 2016: 47.4%
- 2021: 53.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coober Pedy, 1 person is the majority at 54%; 2 people is next at 29%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.6% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 5.8 percentage points since 2011.
19.6% ▲ +41.7%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Coober Pedy, the largest group is Couples with children at 42%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (19%).
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 Coober Pedy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA41330/coober-pedy/topic/family-households