2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Golden Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Golden Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Golden Point than in most similar areas. This makes it a place of small households, where the typical home holds just 2.1 people.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Golden Point — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 38.8% of residents live by themselves, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This high number of single-person homes means Golden Point has a smaller typical household size than both the state and the country.
38.8% ▲ +28.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Golden Point splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (35%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.7% of the area, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Most families here are couples, with 42.5% having children and 36.6% without.
19.7% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Golden Point, the largest group is Couples with children at 43%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (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 Golden Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21056/golden-point/topic/family-households