2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Clare · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Clare
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Clare are couples with children, making them the most common family type. The area has a high proportion of people living alone, which contributes to a typical household size that is smaller than the national figure.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Clare — lower than 76% of areas.
| Clare | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 5453, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34% of homes in Clare are occupied by a single person, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This helps explain why the typical home here has 2.2 people, which is a little below the Australian figure of 2.5.
34.0% ▲ +18.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Clare splits fairly evenly between 2 people (39%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 45.7% of families, while 38.7% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 15.1% of the total, which is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the rest of Australia.
15.1% ▲ +32.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Clare, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (39%) and One-parent families (15%).
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 Clare [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40259/clare/topic/family-households