2.5 ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Torrens Park · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Torrens Park
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family life in Torrens Park is mostly centred around couples with children, who make up 62.1% of all families. This creates a domestic landscape where most homes are shared, and single-person households are less common than in the state average.
2.5
▲ +4.2%
- 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 Torrens Park — higher than 50% of areas.
| Torrens Park | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 5062, SA | 2.6 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Torrens Park houses 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure. While 25.2% of people live alone, this is well below the South Australian average of 28.5%.
25.2% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Torrens Park, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 4 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the most common family type at 62.1%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up 10.3% of the total, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
10.3% ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Torrens Park, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Torrens Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41464/torrens-park/topic/family-households