1.9 ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coobowie · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Coobowie
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Coobowie are occupied by a single person, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area much smaller in terms of household size than most other parts of Australia.
1.9
▲ +5.6%
- 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 Coobowie — lower than 89% of areas.
| Coobowie | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5583, SA | 1.9 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 46.6% of people living alone, Coobowie has one of the highest rates of single-person homes. Consequently, the typical home has just 1.9 people, which is well below the South Australian figure of 2.4.
46.6% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.0%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 46.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coobowie, the largest group is 1 person at 50%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 18.8% of the local total, which is well above both the state and national figures. Couples with children are the most common family type at 40.9%.
18.8% ▲ +166.5%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Coobowie splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (40%) and Couples without children (38%), with One-parent families at 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 Coobowie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40296/coobowie/topic/family-households