2.7 ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Taylor · State Electorate
Family & Households in Taylor
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Taylor are couples with children. This makes the area stand out for its larger households and a very high proportion of single-parent families. It is a place where family life is the dominant story, though the number of people living alone has climbed since 2011.
2.7
▼ -3.6%
- 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 Taylor — higher than 71% of areas.
| Taylor | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than in most other areas, with 2.7 people per household. While 30.6% of homes hold two people, there has been a rise in people living alone, which now accounts for 25.9% of households.
25.9% ▲ +32.9%
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 25.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Taylor splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (26%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 25.3% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 6.9 percentage points since 2011.
25.3% ▲ +37.5%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Taylor, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; One-parent families is next at 25%.
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 Taylor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40042/taylor/topic/family-households