1.8 ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dolphin Sands · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Dolphin Sands
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people per home than most similar areas make Dolphin Sands a place of small households. The typical home here holds just 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This reflects a community where small households and people living alone are very common.
1.8
▼ -14.3%
- 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 Dolphin Sands — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 38.3% of people live alone, a figure far above the Australian average. This helps explain why the typical household is so small, with nearly half of all homes containing only two people.
38.3% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Dolphin Sands, 2 people is the majority at 51%; 1 person is next at 40%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the vast majority of families at 71.2%. In contrast, one-parent families are much less common here at 4.8%, which is far below the state figure of 15.9%.
4.8% ▼ -35.7%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dolphin Sands, Couples without children is the majority at 76%; Couples with children is next at 19%.
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 Dolphin Sands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60161/dolphin-sands/topic/family-households