2.5 ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Smithfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Smithfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 30% of families in Smithfield are headed by a single parent, a figure far higher than the national average. This makes the area stand out for its high proportion of one-parent households, though the typical home still houses about 2.5 people.
2.5
▲ +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 Smithfield — higher than 50% of areas.
| Smithfield | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 5114, SA | 2.8 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.7% of people here live alone, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 32.2% of all households.
30.7% ▲ +10.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Smithfield splits fairly evenly between 2 people (32%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 30.7% of the total, which is far above the South Australian rate of 14.8%. Couples with children are the largest group at 47.5%, while couples without children account for 20%.
30.7% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Smithfield, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by One-parent families (31%) and Couples without children (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 Smithfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41346/smithfield/topic/family-households