2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Butler · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Butler
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 71.1% of families in Butler, which is a very high proportion. This makes it a place where family life is the dominant story, with far fewer people living alone than the state or national figures.
2.5
—
- 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 Butler — higher than 50% of areas.
| Butler | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 5605, SA | 2.0 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Butler holds 2.5 people, which is about the same as the Australian figure. Only 20.8% of households are people living alone, a rate well below the South Australian average of 28.5%.
20.8% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Butler splits fairly evenly between 1 person (33%) and 2 people (33%), with 4 people at 33%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is very stable here, as one-parent families make up only 6.7% of the total. This is well below the national figure of 14.1% and much lower than most similar areas.
6.7% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Butler, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; 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 Butler [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40198/butler/topic/family-households