2.9 ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gannawarra · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Gannawarra
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family sizes have remained consistently large in Gannawarra, where the typical home holds nearly three people. This is a community dominated by couples with children, which helps explain why so few people live alone compared to the rest of the country.
2.9
▲ +7.4%
- 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 Gannawarra — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Gannawarra are larger than most, with a typical size of 2.9 people. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5, and only 11.1% of residents live alone, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
11.1% ▼ -51.2%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Gannawarra splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 4 people (30%), with 3 people at 27%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families here at 71.7%. One-parent families account for only 8.1%, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1%.
8.1% ▲ +16.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gannawarra, Couples with children is the majority at 70%; 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 Gannawarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20963/gannawarra/topic/family-households