1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coleraine · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Coleraine
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-four per cent of homes in Coleraine are occupied by people living alone, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This makes it a place of very small households, with a typical home containing fewer than two people.
1.9
▼ -9.5%
- 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 Coleraine — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Coleraine holds only 1.9 people, a figure well below the national and state average of 2.5. This is reflected in the fact that 43.9% of households consist of just one person.
43.9% ▲ +15.2%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.1%
- 2016: 38.0%
- 2021: 43.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coleraine, the largest group is 1 person at 43%, followed by 2 people (37%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 20.4% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% national figure. Other families are less common, with couples without children making up 40.4% of the local mix.
20.4% ▲ +43.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Coleraine splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (40%) and Couples with children (39%), with One-parent families 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 Coleraine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20614/coleraine/topic/family-households