2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Shelford · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Shelford
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Shelford than in the rest of the country. This is a place where homes are typically larger and more crowded, with 2.8 people per house compared to the national figure of 2.5.
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 Shelford — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Shelford are more crowded than most areas, with only 16.1% of people living alone, which is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia. The most common household size is two people, at 35.5%.
16.1% ▼ -33.1%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Shelford, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of families here at 63.4%. One-parent families account for 11.5% of the total, a figure that is a little below the national average of 14.1%.
11.5% ▲ +102.2%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Shelford, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Shelford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22272/shelford/topic/family-households