2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Smithfield Plains · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Smithfield Plains
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher proportion of single-parent families live in Smithfield Plains than in the rest of South Australia. This gap is the most striking feature of the area's family life, where one-parent homes make up 36.2% of all families. Most households here are small, typically housing around 2.6 people.
2.6
→ 0.0%
- 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 Plains — higher than 57% of areas.
| Smithfield Plains | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 5114, SA | 2.8 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Smithfield Plains are slightly more crowded than those in the state average, with 2.6 people per home. About 29.3% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure.
29.3% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Smithfield Plains splits fairly evenly between 1 person (29%) and 2 people (28%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 36.2% of the total, a figure that is far above the South Australian average of 14.8%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 47.1%.
36.2% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Smithfield Plains, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by One-parent families (36%) and Couples without children (15%).
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 Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41347/smithfield-plains/topic/family-households