2.3 ▼ -11.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gascoyne Junction · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Gascoyne Junction
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Gascoyne Junction, where over a third of people live alone. This creates a distinct living pattern compared to the rest of the state, with a high number of single-person homes and smaller average household sizes.
2.3
▼ -11.5%
- 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 Gascoyne Junction — lower than 71% of areas.
| Gascoyne Junction | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 6705, WA | 2.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is much more common here than in most areas, with 34.6% of people in their own home. This helps explain why the typical home has 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
34.6% ▼ -10.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.5%
- 2016: 41.7%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gascoyne Junction, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (33%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 28.3% of the total, a figure that is far above the Australian average of 14.1%. Other family types are more evenly split, with couples without children accounting for 26.1% of homes.
28.3% ▼ -4.2%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Gascoyne Junction splits fairly evenly between One-parent families (32%) and Couples without children (29%), with Couples with children 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 Gascoyne Junction [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50530/gascoyne-junction/topic/family-households