2.0 ▼ -25.9%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Goomalling · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Goomalling
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all households in Goomalling are single-person homes. This trend has grown sharply since 2011, making the area much more likely to have people living alone than most other parts of the country.
2.0
▼ -25.9%
- 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 Goomalling — lower than 86% of areas.
| Goomalling | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 6460, WA | 2.2 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 46% of people here live alone, a figure that has risen by 26 points since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home in Goomalling has just 2 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
46.0% ▲ +128.3%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 46.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Goomalling, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 4 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 46.8% of families in the area. One-parent families account for 12.7%, which is a little below the national figure and slightly lower than in 2011.
12.7% ▼ -11.0%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Goomalling, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (39%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Goomalling [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522025/goomalling/topic/family-households