2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Millswood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Millswood
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are sharing homes in Millswood than in previous years. This suburb is now a strong hub for families, with a typical home holding 2.7 people, which is a little above the South Australian figure.
2.7
→ 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 Millswood — higher than 71% of areas.
| Millswood | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 5034, SA | 2.4 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than most areas, with 33.5% of households housing two people and 19.8% holding four. Only 21.2% of residents live alone, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
21.2% ▲ +3.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Millswood, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 4 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the community at 64.2%. This helps explain why one-parent families are much less common here, at 9.0%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.0% ▲ +41.1%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Millswood, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Millswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40879/millswood/topic/family-households