1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Goolwa · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Goolwa
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Goolwa are occupied by just one person. This makes the area stand out for its small household sizes, with very few homes containing large families.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Goolwa — lower than 91% of areas.
| Goolwa | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 5214, SA | 2.0 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here, making up 45% of all households. This is far above the national figure of 25.6%, and helps explain why the typical home in Goolwa holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the Australian average of 2.5.
45.0% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.6%
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Goolwa splits fairly evenly between 1 person (45%) and 2 people (42%), with 3 people at 6%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 59.1%. One-parent families account for 14.5% of the total, a figure that is higher than most areas but about the same as the South Australian average.
14.5% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Goolwa, Couples without children is the majority at 59%; Couples with children is next at 26%.
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 Goolwa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40521/goolwa/topic/family-households