2.1 —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Poatina · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Poatina
How families and households are made up across the area.
Few changes have hit the home lives of Poatina residents since 2011, but the area remains an outlier for single-person living. Almost 44% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure.
2.1
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- 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 Poatina — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Small households are the norm in Poatina, where the typical home has just 2.1 people. This is much lower than most areas and is driven by the fact that 43.5% of residents live by themselves.
43.5% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Poatina splits fairly evenly between 1 person (45%) and 2 people (41%), with 3 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 21.8% of the total, a figure that is well above both the state and national averages. Meanwhile, couples without children represent the largest family group at 39.7%.
21.8% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Poatina splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (40%) and Couples with children (38%), with One-parent families at 22%.
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 Poatina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60509/poatina/topic/family-households