2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Elder · State Electorate
Family & Households in Elder
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer one-parent families have lived in Elder since 2011, as the number dropped by 6.1 percentage points. The area now has a high proportion of people living alone, with 30.3% of households consisting of just one person.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Elder — lower than 71% of areas.
| Elder | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.3% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical home here has 2.4 people, a figure that has edged down since 2011.
30.3% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Elder splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 59.1%, while couples without children account for 26.2%. One-parent families make up 13.1% of the total, which is a little below both the state and national figures.
13.1% ▼ -31.6%
Lower than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Elder, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Elder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40011/elder/topic/family-households