2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Summertown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Summertown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly three people live in the typical home in Summertown, making it a place where few people live by themselves. This trend is driven by a high number of families with children, creating a domestic life that is much more crowded than in most other areas.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Summertown — higher than 81% of areas.
| Summertown | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 5141, SA | 2.9 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 2.9 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the very low number of people living alone, at just 12.0%, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
12.0% ▼ -30.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Summertown, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the community at 64.3%. This helps explain why one-parent families are so rare here, at only 5.4%, a figure well below the 14.1% national average.
5.4% ▲ +6.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Summertown, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Summertown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41404/summertown/topic/family-households