2.7 ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Clarendon · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Clarendon
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Clarendon, where 60.6% of families consist of couples with children. This creates a residential pattern where far fewer people live alone compared to the state and national averages.
2.7
▲ +12.5%
- 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 Clarendon — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Clarendon holds 2.7 people, which is higher than most areas. Only 20% of residents live alone, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%.
20.0% ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Clarendon, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 1 person (18%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples, with 60.6% raising children and another 33.3% without. Only 7.6% of families are one-parent households, which is well below the 14.1% national figure.
7.6% ▼ -51.6%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Clarendon, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Clarendon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20564/clarendon/topic/family-households