1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 95% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
5583, SA · Postcode
Family & Households in 5583, SA
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-two per cent of people in postcode 5583 live alone, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area one of the places with the fewest people per home in the region, with a typical household consisting of fewer than two people.
1.9
→ 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 5583, SA — lower than 95% of areas.
| 5583, SA | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| Yorke Peninsula | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People per home is just 1.9, which is well below the South Australian figure of 2.4. This low density is driven by the fact that 42.1% of residents live alone, a proportion that has risen since 2011.
42.1% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 97% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 42.1%
- 2021: 42.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →5583, SA splits fairly evenly between 2 people (43%) and 1 person (43%), with 3 people at 6%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 14.4% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the rest of Australia but has risen by 5 points since 2011.
14.4% ▲ +53.3%
Higher than 68% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 5583, SA, Couples without children is the majority at 52%; Couples with children is next at 32%.
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 5583, SA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA5583/5583-sa/topic/family-households