2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Griffith · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Griffith
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of people in Griffith live on their own, which is far above the national figure. This makes the area much smaller in terms of household size than most other places. While many residents live alone, over half of the local families are couples raising children.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Griffith — lower than 81% of areas.
| Griffith | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 2603, ACT | 2.3 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 35.7% of people living alone, Griffith has a much higher rate of single-person households than most areas. This helps explain why the typical home has only 2.1 people, which is a little below the ACT and national figure of 2.5.
35.7% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Griffith splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.5% of families, while those without children account for 36.8%. One-parent families make up 9.4% of the total, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
9.4% ▲ +4.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Griffith, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 37%.
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 Griffith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80067/griffith/topic/family-households