2.3 ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sturt · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sturt
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher proportions of single-person homes and one-parent families set Sturt apart from most similar areas. While the typical home holds 2.3 people, these specific household types are far more common here than in the state or national figures.
2.3
▲ +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 Sturt — lower than 71% of areas.
| Sturt | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 5047, SA | 2.4 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 33% of people in Sturt live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This high number of single-person households helps explain why the typical home has only 2.3 people, slightly lower than the Australian average.
33.0% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sturt splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.8% of the area, a figure well above both the state (14.8%) and national (14.1%) averages. Couples with children are the most common family type at 48.3%.
19.8% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sturt, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (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 Sturt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41401/sturt/topic/family-households