2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yorketown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Yorketown
How families and households are made up across the area.
A shift toward smaller living arrangements has occurred in Yorketown, where nearly 40% of households are now people living alone. This is a far higher proportion than the national figure. The area is mostly made up of couples, with about half of all families raising children.
2.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Yorketown — lower than 81% of areas.
| Yorketown | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 5576, SA | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 39.4% of people living alone, Yorketown has one of the highest rates for this in the region. This helps explain why the typical home is smaller than most, with only 2.1 people per household.
39.4% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.0%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Yorketown splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of families here are couples with children, while 40.7% are couples without children. The rate of one-parent families is only 8.2%, which is well below both the state and national figures.
8.2% ▼ -40.6%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Yorketown, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 40%.
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 Yorketown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41689/yorketown/topic/family-households