2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hove · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hove
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Hove than in most other areas, with 36.5% of households consisting of just one person. This high number of single-person homes means Hove typically has fewer people per household than the national figure.
2.2
▲ +4.8%
- 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 Hove — lower than 76% of areas.
| Hove | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 5048, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has 2.2 people, which is a little below the South Australian figure of 2.4. Single-person households are very common at 36.5%, well above the state average of 28.5%.
36.5% ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hove splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (33%), with 4 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.7% of families, while those without children account for 32.1%. One-parent families make up 11.4% of the total, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.4% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hove, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Hove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40612/hove/topic/family-households