2.3 ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hindmarsh · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Hindmarsh
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 30% of people in Hindmarsh live alone, reflecting a high number of single-person households compared to other areas. This creates a local environment where smaller living arrangements are common, with the typical home housing just 2.3 people.
2.3
▲ +4.5%
- 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 Hindmarsh — lower than 86% of areas.
| Hindmarsh | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are much more common here than in most areas, though this figure fell slightly since 2011 to 30.6%. This helps explain why the typical household size of 2.3 people is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
30.6% ▼ -7.8%
Higher than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 30.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hindmarsh splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families here are couples with children, making up 55% of the total. One-parent families account for 15% of households, a figure that has risen since 2011 and is now about the same as the national average.
15.0% ▲ +15.5%
Higher than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hindmarsh, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; 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 Hindmarsh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED405/hindmarsh/topic/family-households