2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Adelaide · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Adelaide
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 31% of people in Adelaide live alone, a figure well above the national average. This creates a smaller typical household size for the area compared to most other places. While many homes are small, over half of the families here still consist of couples with children.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 0 areas
- 1.9: 2 areas
- 2.0: 1 area
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 3 areas
- 2.3: 23 areas
- 2.4: 27 areas
- 2.5: 26 areas
- 2.6: 22 areas
- 2.7: 16 areas
- 2.8: 8 areas
- 2.9: 9 areas
- 3.0: 5 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 2 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All federal electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Adelaide — lower than 86% of areas.
| Adelaide | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 31.6% of people living alone, this area has one of the highest rates of single-person households. This helps explain why the typical home is smaller than most, with only 2.3 people per dwelling.
31.6% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 89% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Adelaide splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.6% of families here. One-parent families account for 13.5%, which is lower than most similar areas and slightly below the South Australian figure.
13.5% ▲ +0.7%
Lower than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Adelaide, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Adelaide [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED401/adelaide/topic/family-households