2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Holdfast Bay · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Holdfast Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Holdfast Bay are couples with children. This area is defined by small household sizes, with a very high number of people living on their own compared to the rest of the country.
2.2
▲ +4.8%
- 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 Holdfast Bay — lower than 86% of areas.
| Holdfast Bay | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A huge 34.7% of people here live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home has only 2.2 people, a figure that is much lower than in most other areas.
34.7% ▼ -4.5%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Holdfast Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up a large 36% of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.2%, which is well below the South Australian average of 14.8%.
11.2% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Holdfast Bay, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Holdfast Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA42600/holdfast-bay/topic/family-households