2.6 ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 57% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Spence · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Spence
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than one in five families in Spence are led by a single parent, a figure well above the national average. This is a community where households are generally larger than in most other areas, and the number of people living in each home has edged up since 2011.
2.6
▲ +4.0%
- 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 Spence — higher than 57% of areas.
| Spence | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Spence holds 2.6 people, which is higher than most areas. While 31.1% of households contain two people, those living alone make up 26.5% of the area, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011.
26.5% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 57% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Spence splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (26%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 22.5% of the total, which is among the highest for its level and well above the 14.1% national figure. This proportion has risen by 3.9 percentage points over the last decade, while couples with children remain the largest group at 54.8%.
22.5% ▲ +21.0%
Higher than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Spence, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; One-parent families is next at 22%.
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 Spence [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED409/spence/topic/family-households