2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gymbowen · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Gymbowen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family structures in Gymbowen have remained steady over the last decade, though the area is now more likely to have people living alone than most similar places. There are 2.6 people in the typical home, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.6
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- 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 Gymbowen — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 27.3% of households are people living alone, which is a little above the Victorian figure of 25.9%. While 22.7% of homes house two people, larger households of five people make up 13.6% of the total.
27.3% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gymbowen, the largest group is 1 person at 43%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 5 people (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 82.1% of families here, while one-parent families are completely absent at 0.0%. This is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gymbowen, Couples with children is the majority at 78%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Gymbowen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21122/gymbowen/topic/family-households