2.6 ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mead · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mead
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than six out of ten families in Mead have children, making it a place where larger households are common. The community is defined by a strong presence of couples and a total lack of single-parent families, which is far below the national figure.
2.6
▼ -7.1%
- 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 Mead — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Mead typically hold 2.6 people, which is higher than most similar areas. Only 21.6% of people live alone, a figure well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
21.6% ▲ +56.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mead, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 4 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 64.1% of families here, while 34.6% are couples without children. Notably, there are no one-parent families in Mead, a result far below both the state and national figures.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mead, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Mead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21633/mead/topic/family-households