1.9 ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Georgetown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Georgetown
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Georgetown are couples without children. This is a place where small households are the norm, and a very high number of residents live on their own.
1.9
▼ -20.8%
- 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 Georgetown — lower than 89% of areas.
| Georgetown | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5472, SA | 1.9 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 42% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure of 26%. Because of this, the typical home in Georgetown has only 1.9 people, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
41.7% ▲ +60.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 41.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Georgetown splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (40%), with 5 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 2.7% of the total, a figure far below the 14.1% seen across Australia. Most families are couples, with 52.3% being those without children and 38.7% with children.
2.7% ▼ -77.8%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Georgetown, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 41%.
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 Georgetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40482/georgetown/topic/family-households