2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Port Lincoln · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Port Lincoln
How families and households are made up across the area.
A higher proportion of people living alone has shaped the local layout of Port Lincoln since 2011. This trend is seen in the high number of single-person households, which now outnumber those with three or more people.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Port Lincoln — lower than 71% of areas.
| Port Lincoln | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 5606, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32.3% of people in Port Lincoln live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home here holds 2.3 people, slightly lower than the Australian average of 2.5.
32.3% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Port Lincoln splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.4% of the local total, a figure well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Nearly half of all families are couples with children, while 31.9% are couples without children.
18.4% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 16.6%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Port Lincoln, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (32%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Port Lincoln [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41201/port-lincoln/topic/family-households