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.
Cowell · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cowell
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller household sizes define daily life in Cowell, where many residents live in two-person homes. The typical home holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This trend is driven by a high number of people living on their own.
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 Cowell — lower than 76% of areas.
| Cowell | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 5602, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 30% of people live alone in Cowell, a figure well above the Australian average of 25.6%. Two-person households are the most common, making up 44% of all homes in the area.
29.3% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cowell, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 46.9%, followed closely by couples with children at 42.4%. One-parent families make up 10.1% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.1% ▲ +24.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Cowell splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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 Cowell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40319/cowell/topic/family-households