1.9 ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.6
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Point Lowly · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Point Lowly
How families and households are made up across the area.
Zero one-parent families are recorded in Point Lowly, making it an outlier compared to the rest of the country. The area is sparsely populated and mostly consists of couples, with a very small number of people living in each home.
1.9
▼ -20.8%
- 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 Point Lowly — lower than 89% of areas.
| Point Lowly | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5601, SA | 2.0 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Point Lowly are much smaller than usual, with just 1.9 people per home. This is well below the South Australian figure of 2.4 and the national figure of 2.5.
Household size
View on map →Point Lowly splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 29%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the vast majority of families here at 72.7%. This helps explain why there are no one-parent families, a figure far below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Point Lowly, Couples without children is the majority at 80%; Couples with children is next at 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 Point Lowly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41170/point-lowly/topic/family-households