1.9 ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Price · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Price than in most similar areas. This trend helps explain why the typical home here is much smaller than the state and national figures, with only 1.9 people per household.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Price — lower than 89% of areas.
| Price | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5570, SA | 1.9 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
About 43.2% of residents live by themselves, a figure far above the Australian average of 25.6%. This explains the small household size, as nearly half of all homes contain only one or two people.
1.9 ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
43.2% ▲ +27.4%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Price splits fairly evenly between 2 people (45%) and 1 person (43%), with 3 people at 5%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 51.1%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up only 8.3% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
8.3% ▲ +33.1%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Price, Couples without children is the majority at 52%; Couples with children is next at 36%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Price [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41218/price/topic/family-households