2.4 ▲ +9.1%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Elizabeth · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Elizabeth
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Elizabeth than in the rest of the state, with 38.5% of households consisting of just one person. This is a significant gap compared to the national figure of 25.6%. While the typical home contains about 2.4 people, the area has a very high proportion of single-parent families.
2.4
▲ +9.1%
- 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 Elizabeth — lower than 57% of areas.
| Elizabeth | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 5112, SA | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is common here, with 38.5% of households being single-person homes, which is far above the Australian average. Most other homes have two people (26.3%) or three people (13.9%).
38.5% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.9%
- 2016: 43.8%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Elizabeth, the largest group is 1 person at 39%, followed by 2 people (27%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.6% of the total, a figure that is well above the South Australian average of 14.8%. These families sit alongside couples with children, who make up 53.9% of the area's families.
24.6% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Elizabeth, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; One-parent families is next at 25%.
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 Elizabeth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40397/elizabeth/topic/family-households