1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Adelaide · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Adelaide
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 44% of people live alone in Adelaide, a figure far above the national average. This gap highlights a city of small households, where the typical home holds fewer people than in most other Australian areas.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Adelaide — lower than 99% of areas.
| Adelaide | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are small, with only 1.8 people per dwelling, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a very high number of single-person households, which rose to 44.4% since 2011.
44.4% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 42.1%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Adelaide splits fairly evenly between 1 person (44%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 55.2% of families. One-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, sitting at 10.9%, well below the South Australian figure of 14.8%.
10.9% ▲ +7.3%
Lower than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Adelaide, Couples without children is the majority at 55%; Couples with children is next at 30%.
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/lga/LGA40070/adelaide/topic/family-households