2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Snowtown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Snowtown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all households in Snowtown consist of just one person, a figure far above the national average. This high number of single-person homes means the town has much smaller households than most other areas.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Snowtown — lower than 86% of areas.
| Snowtown | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 5520, SA | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 44.3% of people here live alone, which is far above the Australian figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home in Snowtown holds only 2.0 people, well below the national figure of 2.5.
44.3% ▲ +21.5%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 36.3%
- 2021: 44.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Snowtown, the largest group is 1 person at 45%, followed by 2 people (37%) and 4 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.3% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types are more common, with couples without children making up 39.1% and couples with children accounting for 38.7%.
18.3% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Snowtown splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (40%) and Couples with children (40%), with One-parent families at 19%.
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 Snowtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41349/snowtown/topic/family-households