2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Forge Creek · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Forge Creek
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Forge Creek are couples with children. This is a place where larger households are common and people living alone are rare, with the typical home holding 2.8 people.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Forge Creek — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Forge Creek are larger than usual, with 2.8 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the fact that only 12% of people live alone, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
12.0% ▼ -18.3%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Forge Creek, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 4 people (15%) and 1 person (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 57.4% of families here, while those without children account for 35.7%. Only 7% are one-parent families, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
7.0% ▲ +36.8%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Forge Creek, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Forge Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20938/forge-creek/topic/family-households