2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lower Eyre Peninsula · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Lower Eyre Peninsula
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are a common sight in Lower Eyre Peninsula, where 2.5 people live in the typical home. This reflects a region where fewer people live alone compared to the rest of the state, creating a landscape dominated by family groups rather than single occupants.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Lower Eyre Peninsula — higher than 71% of areas.
| Lower Eyre Peninsula | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 22.6% of people here live alone, which is well below the South Australian figure of 28.5%. This helps explain why the area has more people per home than most other areas, although the typical household size has edged down slightly since 2011.
22.6% ▲ +1.1%
Lower than 83% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lower Eyre Peninsula, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up the majority at 58.5%, while one-parent families are very rare here. At 8.1%, the rate of single-parent homes is well below the national figure of 14.1% and among the lowest for similar areas.
8.1% ▼ -3.8%
Lower than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lower Eyre Peninsula, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Lower Eyre Peninsula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA43710/lower-eyre-peninsula/topic/family-households