2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Goyder · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Goyder
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of families in Goyder are couples with children, making them the most common household type. While family units are strong, a growing number of residents live alone, contributing to a typical home size that is smaller than the national figure.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Goyder — lower than 86% of areas.
| Goyder | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Rest of SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Around 34.2% of people here live alone, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. This trend has risen since 2011 and helps explain why the typical home in Goyder has only 2.2 people, a little below the state average.
34.2% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Goyder splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 10.8% of the total, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion has fallen since 2011.
10.8% ▼ -19.2%
Lower than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Goyder, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 38%.
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 Goyder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA42110/goyder/topic/family-households