3.5 ▼ -12.5%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0
- 2016: 3.8
- 2021: 3.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gascoyne River · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Gascoyne River
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost 80% of families in Gascoyne River are couples with children, making it a place where family life is central. This is a sparsely populated area where households are often very large, but a surprising half of all homes are occupied by just one person.
3.5
▼ -12.5%
- 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 River — higher than 95% of areas.
| Gascoyne River | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| 6705, WA | 2.9 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than the national figure, with 3.5 people per home compared to 2.5 across Australia. Interestingly, 50% of people live alone, which is far above the 25.6% seen nationally.
50.0% ▲ +158.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gascoyne River, the largest group is 1 person at 37%, followed by 2 people (30%) and 5 people (22%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 12.3% of the total, a figure that is a little below both the state and national levels. The vast majority of families are couples with children, while there are no couples without children recorded.
12.3% ▼ -75.3%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.0%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gascoyne River, Couples with children is the majority at 83%; One-parent families is next at 13%.
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 River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50531/gascoyne-river/topic/family-households