2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gosford · State Electorate
Family & Households in Gosford
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of the families in Gosford are couples with children, making this the most common household type. However, the area also sees a very high proportion of people living alone, meaning homes here generally hold fewer people than the national figure.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Gosford — lower than 86% of areas.
| Gosford | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 2.7 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Smaller households are common in Gosford, where the typical home holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure. This trend is driven by a high number of single-person homes, with 32.1% of people living alone—well above the NSW rate of 25%.
32.1% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 32.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Gosford splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 17.9% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types include couples without children at 29.7%, while couples with children remain the largest group at 51.1%.
17.9% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gosford, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Gosford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10030/gosford/topic/family-households