2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Oatlands · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Oatlands
How families and households are made up across the area.
About 41.6% of families in Oatlands are couples without children, the most common family type in the area. This reflects a broader trend towards smaller living arrangements, as the typical home here holds far fewer people than the national figure.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Oatlands — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 38% of residents living alone, Oatlands has a much higher rate of single-person homes than most areas. This helps explain why the typical home here has just 2.0 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5.
38.0% ▲ +0.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 38.3%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Oatlands splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.9% of the local total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Couples with children are also common, accounting for 39.8% of families.
17.9% ▲ +21.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Oatlands splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (42%) and Couples with children (40%), with One-parent families at 18%.
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 Oatlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60473/oatlands/topic/family-households