2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 79% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gowrie · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Gowrie
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are a defining feature of daily life in Gowrie, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This is much higher than most areas. The suburb is overwhelmingly dominated by family units, with very few people living on their own compared to the rest of the territory.
2.8
→ 0.0%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Gowrie — higher than 79% of areas.
| Gowrie | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 2904, ACT | 2.7 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 15.5% of people live alone, a figure far below the ACT and national averages of around 25%. This helps explain why homes here are larger than usual, with 35.7% of households containing two people and 19.5% containing four.
15.5% ▲ +2.9%
Lower than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gowrie, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the suburb at 60.1%. One-parent families account for 13.3% of the total, which is a little above the ACT average and represents a 2.9 point drop since 2011.
13.3% ▼ -17.7%
Higher than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gowrie, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Gowrie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801071079/gowrie/topic/family-households