2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Strath Creek · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Strath Creek
How families and households are made up across the area.
Few changes have hit the local home life in Strath Creek since 2011, but the area now sees a very high number of people living on their own. Around 40% of households are single-person homes, making the community feel much quieter than the state average.
2.2
▲ +4.8%
- 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 Strath Creek — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Four in ten people in Strath Creek live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% national average. Because of this, the typical home holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Australian figure of 2.5.
40.0% ▲ +28.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Strath Creek splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (35%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples, with 46.4% having children and 42.9% without. Single-parent families make up only 6.3% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
6.3% ▼ -41.4%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Strath Creek splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (49%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Strath Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22370/strath-creek/topic/family-households