1.8 ▼ -10.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coober Pedy · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Coober Pedy
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all households in Coober Pedy consist of just one person. This is far above the national figure and makes the area's typical home much smaller than those in other parts of the country. Most homes are occupied by a single resident or a couple.
1.8
▼ -10.0%
- 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 Coober Pedy — lower than 99% of areas.
| Coober Pedy | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 5723, SA | 1.9 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A striking 53.9% of people here live alone, which is far above the South Australian figure of 28.5%. This high number of single-person homes means the typical home has only 1.8 people, well below the national average of 2.5.
53.9% ▲ +15.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 46.5%
- 2016: 48.8%
- 2021: 53.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coober Pedy, 1 person is the majority at 53%; 2 people is next at 29%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.6% of the area, which is much higher than most other places and well above the 14.1% national figure. This proportion has risen by 5.0 percentage points since 2011.
19.6% ▲ +34.5%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Coober Pedy, the largest group is Couples with children at 41%, followed by Couples without children (36%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Coober Pedy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415010/coober-pedy/topic/family-households