1.7 → 0.0%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 1.7
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Civic · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Civic
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Civic than in the rest of the territory, with 44.4% of households consisting of just one person. This makes the area much smaller in scale than the national average, as most homes are occupied by only one or two people.
1.7
→ 0.0%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Civic — lower than 99% of areas.
| Civic | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 2601, ACT | 1.7 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has only 1.7 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5. This is consistent with the high number of single-person households, a trend that has barely changed since 2011.
44.4% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 44.8%
- 2016: 40.4%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Civic splits fairly evenly between 1 person (45%) and 2 people (45%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the vast majority of families at 72.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families represent just 6.5% of the total, which is well below both the ACT and national figures.
6.5% ▲ +15.1%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Civic, Couples without children is the majority at 72%; Couples with children is next at 19%.
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 Civic [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801051053/civic/topic/family-households