2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Torrens · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Torrens
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Mount Torrens, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This is a family-heavy area with very few people living alone compared to the rest of the country.
2.8
→ 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 Mount Torrens — higher than 76% of areas.
| Mount Torrens | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 5244, SA | 2.6 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than usual, with 2.8 people per household, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. Only 20.3% of people live alone, a figure well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
20.3% ▲ +30.0%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Torrens, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families are couples with children, making up 66.1% of the total. One-parent families are much less common here at 5.3%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
5.3% ▼ -30.6%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Torrens, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Mount Torrens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40964/mount-torrens/topic/family-households