2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gainsborough · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Gainsborough
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Gainsborough than in the rest of the state, with only 15% of households being single-person homes. This is a community of larger households where the typical home holds 2.5 people, matching the Victorian and national figures.
2.5
—
- 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 Gainsborough — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Most homes in Gainsborough house two people (55%) or three people (35%). This contributes to a very low rate of single-person households, which is 11 percentage points below both the Victorian and Australian figures.
15.0% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gainsborough, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 3 people (29%) and 1 person (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of the families here are couples with children (45.7%), while 52.2% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 13% of the total, a figure that is higher than most similar areas.
13.0% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gainsborough, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (41%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Gainsborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20962/gainsborough/topic/family-households