2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gundagai · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Gundagai
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of homes in Gundagai are occupied by people living alone, a figure well above the national average. This trend toward smaller households has seen the typical number of people per home edge down to 2.3 since 2011. While many homes are small, over half of the local families are couples with children.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Gundagai — lower than 57% of areas.
| Gundagai | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2722, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 34.8% of households, which is well above the 25.6% national figure and has risen since 2011. Most homes here house either one or two people, and the typical home has 2.3 residents, slightly lower than the NSW average of 2.6.
34.8% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Gundagai splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 51.2% of families, while couples without children account for 33.2%. One-parent families make up 13.9% of the total, which is about the same as the state and national figures, though this is 3.3 percentage points lower than in 2011.
13.9% ▼ -19.3%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gundagai, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Gundagai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115073/gundagai/topic/family-households