2.3 ▼ -11.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cavendish · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cavendish
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much fewer one-parent families live in Cavendish compared to the rest of the state. This small community is mostly made up of couples and single-person households, with the typical home holding 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -11.5%
- 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 Cavendish — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Cavendish are slightly smaller than the national figure of 2.5 people. This is partly because 26.7% of residents live alone, which is a higher rate than most similar areas.
26.7% ▲ +47.2%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cavendish, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 4 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families here, with 44.2% raising children and 43.8% without. Only 8.4% of families are one-parent households, a figure well below the national average of 14.1%.
8.4% ▼ -36.2%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Cavendish splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Cavendish [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20526/cavendish/topic/family-households