2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Playford · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Playford
How families and households are made up across the area.
Playford has a higher number of people per home than most similar areas. The local area is marked by a very high proportion of single-parent families, which sits far above the national figure.
2.6
→ 0.0%
- 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 Playford — higher than 71% of areas.
| Playford | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are slightly larger than the South Australian average, with 2.6 people per household. About 26.3% of households are people living alone, a figure that has risen slightly since 2011.
26.3% ▲ +3.3%
Lower than 52% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Playford splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (26%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.2% of the total, which is well above the state average of 14.8%. More than half of all families are couples with children, while 20.5% are couples without children.
24.2% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Playford, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; One-parent families is next at 24%.
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 Playford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/40202/playford/topic/family-households