2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Penguin · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Penguin
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Penguin than in most similar areas, with 29.6% of households consisting of a single person. This creates a trend where homes are smaller than the national average, as the typical household holds just 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Penguin — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are common here at 29.6%, a figure well above the Australian average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home has only 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
29.6% ▲ +10.9%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 29.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Penguin, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families in Penguin are couples with children (50.7%), while 34.8% are couples without. One-parent families make up 13.7% of the total, which is higher than in most similar areas.
13.7% ▲ +15.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Penguin, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Penguin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60501/penguin/topic/family-households