2.3 ▼ -11.5%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Gambier · State Electorate
Family & Households in Mount Gambier
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Mount Gambier are couples with children. This is the most common family type in the area, though there has been a notable shift toward smaller households over the last decade.
2.3
▼ -11.5%
- 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 Mount Gambier — lower than 86% of areas.
| Mount Gambier | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A high number of people live alone in Mount Gambier, with 31% of households consisting of one person. This is well above the national figure of 25.6% and has risen since 2011, which helps explain why the typical number of people per home has fallen to 2.3.
31.0% ▲ +28.5%
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mount Gambier splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.4% of families, while 31.3% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 15.3% of the total, a figure that is a little above the Australian average but has fallen 8.7 percentage points since 2011.
15.3% ▼ -36.2%
Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Gambier, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Mount Gambier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40033/mount-gambier/topic/family-households