2.4 ▲ +4.3%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
West Torrens · State Electorate
Family & Households in West Torrens
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in West Torrens than in most similar areas. While 30.2% of residents live by themselves, the typical home size is 2.4 people, which is about the same as the figures for South Australia and the rest of the country.
2.4
▲ +4.3%
- 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 West Torrens — lower than 71% of areas.
| West Torrens | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Greater Adelaide | 2.5 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.2% of residents live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. While this is much higher than in most areas, the number of people living alone has actually fallen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
30.2% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →West Torrens splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 55.8%. One-parent families account for 13.8% of the total, which is about the same as the Australian figure and has barely changed over the last decade.
13.8% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In West Torrens, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 West Torrens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40046/west-torrens/topic/family-households