3.0 ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Longwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Longwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family life in Longwood has seen a shift toward larger households over the last decade. The area is now defined by a strong presence of families with children, with a typical home holding 3.0 people, which is well above the state figure.
3.0
▲ +3.4%
- 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 Longwood — higher than 86% of areas.
| Longwood | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 5153, SA | 2.7 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Longwood are larger than most, with only 19.8% of people living alone. This is well below the South Australian rate of 28.5%, while roughly 20% of households contain four or five people.
19.8% ▼ -2.0%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Longwood splits fairly evenly between 2 people (23%) and 1 person (19%), with 4 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 75.7% of the total. This helps explain why one-parent families are much less common here at 5.6%, a figure well below the national average of 14.1%.
5.6% ▼ -24.7%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Longwood, Couples with children is the majority at 77%; Couples without children is next at 18%.
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 Longwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40778/longwood/topic/family-households