2.2 ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mitchell Park · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mitchell Park
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people now live alone in Mitchell Park than in previous years, with 37.8% of households consisting of just one person. This shift has left the area with smaller households than the state and national figures. It is a place where single-person homes and one-parent families are far more common than in most other areas.
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 Mitchell Park — lower than 76% of areas.
| Mitchell Park | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 5043, SA | 2.2 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 37.8% of homes being one-person households, a figure far above the national 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home in Mitchell Park has only 2.2 people, which is a little below the South Australian figure of 2.4.
37.8% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.3%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 37.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mitchell Park, the largest group is 1 person at 38%, followed by 2 people (31%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.0% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. While couples with children are the largest group at 49.0%, the number of single-parent homes is much higher than in most similar areas.
20.0% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mitchell Park, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (28%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Mitchell Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40893/mitchell-park/topic/family-households