2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alma · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Alma
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Alma than in most similar areas. While the typical home holds about 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure, a high number of single-person households shapes the local landscape.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Alma — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Around 32.4% of people here live alone, which is well above the 25.6% national average. Two-person homes are also common, making up 35.3% of all households.
32.4% ▲ +63.3%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Alma splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54.3% of families, while one-parent families account for 14.3%. This last figure is higher than in most similar areas, though it is about the same as the state and national figures.
14.3% ▼ -1.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alma, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without 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 Alma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20031/alma/topic/family-households