3.1 —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Macgillivray · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Macgillivray
How families and households are made up across the area.
Large households are the norm in Macgillivray, where an average of 3.1 people live in each home. This is well above the South Australian figure of 2.4, marking the area as a place where few people live alone and most residences house multiple family members.
3.1
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- 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 Macgillivray — higher than 88% of areas.
| Macgillivray | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 5223, SA | 2.2 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes here are much larger than average, with 35.7% of households containing four people. Only 10.7% of residents live alone, a figure far below the national average of 25.6%.
10.7% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Macgillivray splits fairly evenly between 4 people (32%) and 2 people (29%), with 5 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples with children, who make up 75.3% of the total. In a striking contrast to the rest of the country, there are no one-parent families in the area.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Macgillivray, Couples with children is the majority at 77%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Macgillivray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40801/macgillivray/topic/family-households