2.8 ▼ -12.5%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swanport · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Swanport
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are sharing homes in Swanport than in most similar areas. The community is mostly made up of families with children, which helps explain why the typical household size is larger than the national figure.
2.8
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Swanport — higher than 76% of areas.
| Swanport | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 5253, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 2.8 people per house compared to the Australian figure of 2.5. Very few people live alone at 14%, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
14.0% ▲ +68.0%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Swanport, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families are couples with children, making up 64.5% of the total. One-parent families account for only 6.6%, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
6.6% ▼ -38.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Swanport, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Swanport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41414/swanport/topic/family-households