2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Doctors Rocks · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Doctors Rocks
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Doctors Rocks compared to the rest of the state. This sparsely populated area is mostly made up of couples, with very few single-person households or one-parent families. The typical home here is small, holding around 2.3 people.
2.3
—
- 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 Doctors Rocks — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 17.6% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. Most homes here are occupied by two people, making up 52.9% of all households.
17.6% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Doctors Rocks, 2 people is the majority at 53%; 1 person is next at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up only 4.1% of the community, a figure far below the 14.1% national average. Almost half of all families are couples without children, while 46.6% are couples with children.
4.1% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Doctors Rocks splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (49%) and Couples with children (47%), with One-parent families at 4%.
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 Doctors Rocks [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60159/doctors-rocks/topic/family-households