1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Peterborough · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Peterborough
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Peterborough than in the past, with 45.2% of households now consisting of just one person. This shift has left the area with a very low typical household size of 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 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 Peterborough — lower than 99% of areas.
| Peterborough | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| Rest of SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly half of all homes in Peterborough house only one person, a figure that has risen since 2011 and is far above the South Australian average. This explains why the area has some of the lowest person-per-home counts among similar regions.
45.2% ▲ +11.6%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 40.5%
- 2016: 43.0%
- 2021: 45.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Peterborough, the largest group is 1 person at 45%, followed by 2 people (38%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 24.6% of the local total, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011, while couples without children remain the most common family type at 44.1%.
24.6% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Peterborough, the largest group is Couples without children at 44%, followed by Couples with children (30%) and One-parent families (25%).
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 Peterborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA45540/peterborough/topic/family-households