2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Remarkable · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Mount Remarkable
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people share a roof in Mount Remarkable than in most other areas, with a typical home holding only 2.2 people. This makes the area feel less crowded than the national average, and this trend of shrinking household sizes has continued since 2011.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Mount Remarkable — lower than 86% of areas.
| Mount Remarkable | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Rest of SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 30% of people live alone, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 45.2% of all households.
29.6% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 29.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Remarkable, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 8.9% of the population, a figure well below both the state and national averages. Couples with or without children are the most common family types, each accounting for roughly 45% of households.
8.9% ▲ +4.4%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mount Remarkable splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Remarkable [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA44830/mount-remarkable/topic/family-households