2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Monash · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Monash
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Monash compared to the rest of the state. While the typical home holds 2.5 people, matching the national figure, the area is defined by a much lower proportion of single-person households than is common across South Australia.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Monash — higher than 50% of areas.
| Monash | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 5342, SA | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 20.9% of people live alone here, which is well below the South Australian figure of 28.5%. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 40.6% of all households.
20.9% ▲ +8.8%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Monash, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families at 52.2%. One-parent families account for 14.6%, a figure that is higher than most areas but about the same as the national average.
14.6% ▲ +23.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Monash, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Monash [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40904/monash/topic/family-households