Googong · Suburb / Locality

Family & Households in Googong

How families and households are made up across the area.

Couples with children make up a huge 73.4% of the local mix in Googong. This is a family-focused area where homes are larger than usual and very few people live by themselves.

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📍 Googong, Suburb / Locality

Where Googong sits — Average household size

3.1 ▼ -3.1%
  • 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 Googong — higher than 88% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Googong3.1
2620 crosses NSW/ACT 2.5
New South Wales 2.6
Australia 2.5

Households

Average household size.

Homes here are larger than the national figure, with 3.1 people per household. Only 8.8% of people live alone, which is far below the 25.6% average across Australia.

3.1 ▼ -3.1%

Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.2
  • 2016: 3.1
  • 2021: 3.1

Average number of people usually resident per household.

8.8% ▲ +5.7%

Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.3%
  • 2016: 7.9%
  • 2021: 8.8%

Share of households that are a single person living alone.

Household size

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Googong splits fairly evenly between 2 people (29%) and 4 people (27%), with 3 people at 22%.

Families

Family types and one-parent families.

One-parent families make up only 6.8% of the area, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.

6.8% ▼ -5.2%

Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.2%
  • 2016: 6.0%
  • 2021: 6.8%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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In Googong, Couples with children is the majority at 73%; Couples without children is next at 20%.

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 Googong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11710/googong/topic/family-households