1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Goughs Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Goughs Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Goughs Bay, where the typical home holds fewer than two people. This trend is driven by a very high number of people living alone, which is far more common here than in most other areas.
1.9
▼ -13.6%
- 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 Goughs Bay — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost 39% of people live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home has only 1.9 people, which is well below the Victorian figure of 2.5.
38.7% ▲ +44.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Goughs Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 people (43%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of all families are couples without children, making up 47.7% of the group. One-parent families account for 14% of households, which is higher than most areas but about the same as the rest of Australia.
14.0% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Goughs Bay, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Goughs Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21077/goughs-bay/topic/family-households