1.8 ▼ -10.0%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coober Pedy · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Coober Pedy
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Coober Pedy than in most similar areas. This creates a small typical household size of just 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.8
▼ -10.0%
- 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 Coober Pedy — lower than 91% of areas.
| Coober Pedy | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 5723, SA | 1.9 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Over half of all households (53.4%) are people living alone, a figure far above the Australian average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the number of people per home is among the lowest in the region.
53.4% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.7%
- 2016: 47.4%
- 2021: 53.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coober Pedy, 1 person is the majority at 54%; 2 people is next at 29%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.6% of the community, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples with children are the most common family type at 42.7%.
19.6% ▲ +43.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Coober Pedy, the largest group is Couples with children at 42%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (19%).
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 Coober Pedy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40295/coober-pedy/topic/family-households