2.2 ▼ -26.7%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gunbower · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Gunbower
How families and households are made up across the area.
A sharp rise in people living alone has reshaped Gunbower (L) since 2011. This shift has pushed the typical household size down to 2.2 people, which is lower than most similar areas and slightly below the national figure.
2.2
▼ -26.7%
- 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 Gunbower — lower than 64% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in the rest of Australia, with 36.5% of households consisting of one person. This is a big jump from 2011, when only 10.5% lived alone.
36.5% ▲ +246.8%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Gunbower splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (37%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 45.9% of families, while one-parent families account for 14.4%. This last group has grown by 9.5 percentage points since 2011, placing the area slightly above the state average.
14.4% ▲ +193.1%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gunbower, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Gunbower [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222031/gunbower/topic/family-households