2.6 —
Higher than 71% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
5150, SA · Postcode
Family & Households in 5150, SA
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are common in postcode 5150, where the typical home holds 2.6 people. This area is overwhelmingly made up of couples, with a very small number of people living on their own compared to the rest of the country.
2.6
—
- 1.0: 3 areas
- 1.1: 1 area
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 1 area
- 1.4: 1 area
- 1.5: 4 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 16 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 61 areas
- 2.0: 101 areas
- 2.1: 182 areas
- 2.2: 257 areas
- 2.3: 365 areas
- 2.4: 338 areas
- 2.5: 338 areas
- 2.6: 233 areas
- 2.7: 223 areas
- 2.8: 157 areas
- 2.9: 127 areas
- 3.0: 75 areas
- 3.1: 49 areas
- 3.2: 40 areas
- 3.3: 13 areas
- 3.4: 10 areas
- 3.5: 6 areas
- 3.6: 3 areas
- 3.7: 1 area
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 0 areas
- 4.2: 1 area
All postcode areas, 2021. The marker is 5150, SA — higher than 71% of areas.
| 5150, SA | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Mitcham | 2.6 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 40% of homes house two people and 25% hold four, which helps explain why the average household size is a little above the South Australian figure. Only 20% of people live alone, a rate well below the national figure of 25.6%.
20.0% —
Lower than 79% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In 5150, SA, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 4 people (25%) and 1 person (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families here are almost exclusively couples, with 60.9% having children and 39.1% without. No one-parent families were recorded in 2021, a figure that is far below the national average of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 5150, SA, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
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 5150, SA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA5150/5150-sa/topic/family-households