2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Enfield · State Electorate
Family & Households in Enfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Enfield than in most similar areas. It is a place where the majority of households are family-based, though the number of people living alone has climbed significantly over the last decade.
2.6
→ 0.0%
- 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 Enfield — higher than 57% of areas.
| Enfield | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes in Enfield hold 2.6 people, which is a little above the South Australian figure. While about 26.5% of residents live alone, this figure rose by 7.5 percentage points since 2011.
26.5% ▲ +39.2%
Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Enfield splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 1 person (26%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 61.7% of the total. One-parent families account for 13.4%, a figure that is a little below the state average and rose 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
13.4% ▲ +18.2%
Lower than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Enfield, Couples with children is the majority at 62%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Enfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40013/enfield/topic/family-households