2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Goonellabah · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Goonellabah
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 31% of people in Goonellabah live on their own, which is well above the national figure. This high number of single-person homes shapes the area, though the typical household size remains around 2.4 people, similar to the rest of Australia.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 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 Goonellabah — lower than 57% of areas.
| Goonellabah | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2480, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One-person homes are very common here, with 31.3% of households consisting of a single resident. This is much higher than most areas and well above the New South Wales figure of 25%.
31.3% ▲ +21.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Goonellabah splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.2% of the community, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Roughly half of all families are couples with children.
20.2% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Goonellabah, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Goonellabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11717/goonellabah/topic/family-households