2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Flinders · State Electorate
Family & Households in Flinders
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Flinders than in most similar areas, with 30.3% of households consisting of just one person. This makes the area feel quite different from the national norm. Overall, homes here are smaller than usual, typically holding 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Flinders — lower than 86% of areas.
| Flinders | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home has 2.3 people, which is much lower than most areas and has edged down since 2011. This is partly because 30.3% of people live alone, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen by 4.2 percentage points over the last decade.
30.3% ▲ +16.2%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Flinders, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families at 51.7%. One-parent families account for 13.3% of the total, which is about the same as the national figure and down 2.0 percentage points from 2011.
13.3% ▼ -13.1%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Flinders, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Flinders [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40015/flinders/topic/family-households