2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Griffith · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Griffith
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much lower household sizes than most similar areas define Griffith, where the typical home holds just 2.1 people. This is an area where over a third of homes are occupied by just one person, a figure far above the national average.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Griffith — lower than 89% of areas.
| Griffith | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2603, ACT | 2.3 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 35.7% of people here live alone, which is far above the Australian figure of 25.6%. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical home size is just 2.1 people, a little below the ACT average.
35.7% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Griffith splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.5% of families, while 36.8% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 9.4%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.4% ▲ +4.6%
Lower than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Griffith, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 37%.
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 Griffith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801061064/griffith/topic/family-households