2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coffin Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Coffin Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live in each home in Coffin Bay than in the rest of the country. Small households are the norm here, with the typical home holding just two people.
2.0
▼ -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 Coffin Bay — lower than 86% of areas.
| Coffin Bay | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 5607, SA | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Many residents live by themselves, with 31.5% of households being one-person homes, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the 2.0 people per home is much lower than in most other areas.
31.5% ▲ +12.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coffin Bay, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of the families here are couples without children, making up 55.1% of the total. One-parent families account for 11.5%, which is well below the South Australian figure of 14.8%.
11.5% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Coffin Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 33%.
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 Coffin Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40278/coffin-bay/topic/family-households