2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Claremont · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Claremont
How families and households are made up across the area.
One in three households in Claremont consists of a person living alone, making it a place with a very high number of single-person homes. This trend is reflected in the local family structure, where one-parent families are much more common than in the rest of the state.
2.3
→ 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 Claremont — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has 2.3 people, which is a little below the Australian figure of 2.5. Around 33.8% of homes are occupied by just one person, a figure well above both the state (29.0%) and national (25.6%) averages.
33.8% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Claremont splits fairly evenly between 1 person (34%) and 2 people (31%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 22.6% of the total, which is among the highest rates for similar areas and well above the national figure of 14.1%. About half of all families are couples with children.
22.6% ▲ +11.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Claremont, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (26%) and One-parent families (23%).
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 Claremont [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60113/claremont/topic/family-households