2.8 ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Axedale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Axedale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger homes and fewer people living alone have defined Axedale as family life evolves here. The area is now much more likely to have larger households than most similar places, with the typical home holding 2.8 people.
2.8
▲ +7.7%
- 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 Axedale — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 18% of people live alone in Axedale, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes here are larger than usual, with about 31% of households containing two people and another 20.5% containing three.
18.0% ▼ -18.3%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Axedale, the largest group is 2 people at 31%, followed by 3 people (21%) and 4 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 67%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up only 7.9% of the total, a figure well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
7.9% ▼ -42.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Axedale, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Axedale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20093/axedale/topic/family-households