1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hackney · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hackney
How families and households are made up across the area.
A shift towards smaller living arrangements has seen Hackney become an area where over half of all homes are occupied by just one person. This is a stark contrast to the rest of the state, reflecting a neighborhood shaped by a high number of single-person households.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Hackney — lower than 91% of areas.
| Hackney | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 5069, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 1.8 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 50.8% of people live alone, a rate far above both the state and national averages.
50.8% ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.0%
- 2016: 52.6%
- 2021: 50.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Hackney, 1 person is the majority at 51%; 2 people is next at 30%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 44.4%, followed closely by couples with children at 43.7%. One-parent families account for 13.3%, which is higher than most similar areas.
13.3% ▼ -26.7%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Hackney splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (43%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 Hackney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40547/hackney/topic/family-households