2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 90% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
5577, SA · Postcode
Family & Households in 5577, SA
How families and households are made up across the area.
Among the lowest for its type, postcode 5577 has a very small typical household size. Nearly 40% of people here live alone, creating a residential landscape that is much more solitary than the state or national average.
2.0
→ 0.0%
- 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 5577, SA — lower than 90% of areas.
| 5577, SA | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Yorke Peninsula | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Small households are the norm here, with only 2.0 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 39.2% of residents live alone, a rate far above the Australian average of 25.6%.
39.2% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 92% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 39.8%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →5577, SA splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 45.1%, while couples with children account for 40.9%. One-parent families represent 13.5% of the total, a figure that has fallen by 4.8 points since 2011.
13.5% ▼ -26.5%
Higher than 60% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →5577, SA splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 5577, SA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA5577/5577-sa/topic/family-households