2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Stepney · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Stepney
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Stepney are made up of just one person. This makes it a place where small living arrangements are far more common than in most other areas, with the typical home holding only 2.1 people.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Stepney — lower than 81% of areas.
| Stepney | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 5069, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 37.9% of households consisting of one person. This is far above the national figure of 25.6%, which helps explain why the usual home size is much lower than in most areas.
37.9% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.3%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Stepney splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (36%), with 4 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest family group at 54.4%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.8%, which is well below the South Australian figure of 14.8%.
11.8% ▲ +15.3%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Stepney, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Stepney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41382/stepney/topic/family-households