2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hectorville · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hectorville
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Hectorville than in most other areas, with 32% of households consisting of just one person. This trend makes the area's typical home smaller than the national figure. While couples with children remain the most common setup, there is a notable number of single-person homes and one-parent families.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 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 Hectorville — lower than 71% of areas.
| Hectorville | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 5073, SA | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has 2.3 people, which is a little below the Australian figure of 2.5. This is partly because 32% of residents live alone, a rate well above both the state and national averages.
32.0% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hectorville splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 53.1% of families, but one-parent families are much more common here than in most areas. At 17%, this is a little above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
17.0% ▲ +17.3%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hectorville, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Hectorville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40582/hectorville/topic/family-households