1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Adelaide City · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Adelaide City
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person households have risen to 44.4% in Adelaide City since 2011, making it a place where most people live alone or in small groups. This shift has left the area with far fewer people per home than the rest of the state.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 1.0: 1 area
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 4 areas
- 2.0: 3 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 17 areas
- 2.3: 60 areas
- 2.4: 55 areas
- 2.5: 57 areas
- 2.6: 43 areas
- 2.7: 19 areas
- 2.8: 27 areas
- 2.9: 16 areas
- 3.0: 13 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 1 area
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 1 area
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
All sub-region (sa3) areas, 2021. The marker is Adelaide City — lower than 99% of areas.
| Adelaide City | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a very high number of one-person households, a figure that rose to 44.4% by 2021.
44.4% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 42.1%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Adelaide City splits fairly evenly between 1 person (44%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 55.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 10.9%, which is well below the South Australian average of 14.8%.
10.9% ▲ +7.5%
Lower than 83% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Adelaide City, Couples without children is the majority at 55%; Couples with children is next at 30%.
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 Adelaide City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/40101/adelaide-city/topic/family-households