2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gocup · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Gocup
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Gocup than in the rest of the country. This is a place where most households are larger than the national figure, with the typical home holding nearly three people.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Gocup — higher than 81% of areas.
| Gocup | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 2720, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than most, with 2.9 people per household. Only 15.9% of residents live alone, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 25%.
15.9% ▼ -27.8%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Gocup splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 4 people (32%), with 1 person at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples with children, who make up 75% of the total. One-parent families are rare at 4.5%, a figure well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
4.5% ▼ -57.9%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gocup, Couples with children is the majority at 80%; Couples without children is next at 15%.
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 Gocup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11694/gocup/topic/family-households