1.7 ▼ -5.6%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Iron Knob · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Iron Knob
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost 68% of people live alone in Iron Knob, a figure far above the national average. This makes it a sparsely populated area where small households are the norm. The typical home here holds only 1.7 people, which is well below the figures for South Australia and the rest of the country.
1.7
▼ -5.6%
- 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 Iron Knob — lower than 94% of areas.
| Iron Knob | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 5611, SA | 1.8 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 67.3% of households consist of just one person, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This helps explain why the typical home has only 1.7 people, a figure well below the Australian average of 2.5.
67.3% ▲ +38.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.6%
- 2016: 56.9%
- 2021: 67.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Iron Knob, 1 person is the majority at 66%; 2 people is next at 27%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23.6% of the community, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Couples without children are the most common family type at 38.2%.
23.6% ▲ +546.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 23.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Iron Knob splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (40%) and Couples with children (36%), with One-parent families 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 Iron Knob [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40627/iron-knob/topic/family-households