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Family & Households in Price

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.

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Where Price sits — Average household size

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 Price — lower than 89% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Price1.9
5570, SA 1.9
South Australia 2.4
Australia 2.5

Households

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.

  • 2011: 2.4
  • 2016: 1.8
  • 2021: 1.9

Average number of people usually resident per household.

43.2% ▲ +27.4%

Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 33.9%
  • 2016: 41.0%
  • 2021: 43.2%

Share of households that are a single person living alone.

Household size

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Price splits fairly evenly between 2 people (45%) and 1 person (43%), with 3 people at 5%.

Families

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.

  • 2011: 6.2%
  • 2016: 18.1%
  • 2021: 8.3%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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In Price, Couples without children is the majority at 52%; Couples with children is next at 36%.

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 Price [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41218/price/topic/family-households