2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gunbower · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Gunbower
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people share a home in Gunbower than in most similar areas. This trend is driven by a high number of people living alone, which is well above the national figure.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Gunbower — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 30% of residents live alone, a rate well above the 25.6% national figure. Because of this, the typical home in Gunbower has 2.3 people, which is a little below the Australian average of 2.5.
29.1% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 29.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gunbower, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of the families here are couples with children, while 34.3% are couples without children. Single-parent families make up 10% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.0% ▲ +34.7%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gunbower, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Gunbower [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21117/gunbower/topic/family-households