2.6 ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ottoway · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ottoway
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of the families in Ottoway are couples with children, making them the most common household type. This is a place where homes are often larger than average, though a significant number of people also live on their own.
2.6
▲ +4.0%
- 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 Ottoway — higher than 57% of areas.
| Ottoway | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 5013, SA | 2.4 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are slightly larger than those in South Australia, with 2.6 people per home. At the same time, 28.7% of people live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%.
28.7% ▼ -8.6%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ottoway splits fairly evenly between 1 person (29%) and 2 people (29%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 22.4% of the total, a figure that is much higher than most areas and well above the 14.1% national average.
22.4% ▼ -6.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ottoway, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; One-parent families is next at 22%.
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 Ottoway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41081/ottoway/topic/family-households