1.8 ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Penfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Penfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Half of all homes in Penfield are occupied by just one person, making it an area with some of the smallest households around. This trend is seen in the typical home size of 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.8
▼ -14.3%
- 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 Penfield — lower than 91% of areas.
| Penfield | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 5121, SA | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 50.5% of people here live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This explains why the usual household size is so small, with 86.6% of all homes containing only one or two people.
50.5% ▲ +35.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 50.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Penfield, 1 person is the majority at 51%; 2 people is next at 36%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 64.5%, while one-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, at just 9.1%.
9.1% ▲ +40.4%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Penfield, Couples without children is the majority at 64%; Couples with children is next at 27%.
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 Penfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41133/penfield/topic/family-households