2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Barker · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Mount Barker
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people share a home in Mount Barker than in most similar areas. The typical home here holds 2.6 people, reflecting a community where fewer residents live by themselves compared to the rest of the state.
2.6
→ 0.0%
- 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 Mount Barker — higher than 79% of areas.
| Mount Barker | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 22.3% of people live alone, which is well below the South Australian figure of 28.5%. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.6 people is a little above the state average.
22.3% ▲ +2.8%
Lower than 85% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Barker, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (22%) and 4 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 58.9%. One-parent families account for 13.1% of the total, a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages.
13.1% ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Barker, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Mount Barker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA44550/mount-barker/topic/family-households