2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Giles · State Electorate
Family & Households in Giles
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of families in Giles are couples with children. This sparsely populated area has a high number of single-person households and a growing proportion of one-parent families. The typical home holds 2.3 people, a figure that has remained steady since 2011.
2.3
→ 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 Giles — lower than 86% of areas.
| Giles | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 35.3% of households being single-person, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This has risen by 5.8 percentage points since 2011, contributing to a typical home size of 2.3 people.
35.3% ▲ +19.7%
Higher than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Giles splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.2% of the total, a figure that is well above both South Australia and the national average. This proportion has increased by 4.2 percentage points over the last decade.
19.2% ▲ +28.1%
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Giles, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Giles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40019/giles/topic/family-households