1.9 ▲ +35.7%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Goroke · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Goroke
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all homes in Goroke are occupied by just one person, a figure far above the national average. This small locality has a very small typical household size, though the number of people per home has climbed slightly since 2011.
1.9
▲ +35.7%
- 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 Goroke — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 49.5% of people here live alone, which is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This high proportion of single-person homes helps explain why the typical household size is only 1.9 people, well below the national figure of 2.5.
49.5% —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 49.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Goroke, the largest group is 1 person at 48%, followed by 2 people (28%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 26.1% of the total, which is far above the state average of 13.3%. This figure has risen by 15 percentage points since 2016, while couples with children account for 39.4% of families.
26.1% —
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Goroke splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (39%) and Couples without children (35%), with One-parent families at 26%.
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 Goroke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222029/goroke/topic/family-households