1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ardrossan · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ardrossan
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living in each home than in previous years, making Ardrossan a place where small households are now the norm. The typical home here holds only 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.9
→ 0.0%
- 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 Ardrossan — lower than 89% of areas.
| Ardrossan | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5571, SA | 2.0 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 38% of residents live alone, a figure far above the Australian average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the area has much lower occupancy than most places, with 46.9% of households containing just two people.
38.0% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ardrossan, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (38%) and 3 people (6%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 55.5%, while one-parent families are much less common here at 8.5% compared to 14.1% nationally.
8.5% ▼ -28.0%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ardrossan, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with 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 Ardrossan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40039/ardrossan/topic/family-households