2.3 ▼ -11.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Murray Bridge · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Murray Bridge
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all families in Murray Bridge are couples with children. This is a place where single-person households have become much more common, with a typical home now holding 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -11.5%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Murray Bridge — lower than 57% of areas.
| Murray Bridge | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 5253, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One in three residents (33.2%) lives alone, which is well above the national figure and a significant rise since 2011. This trend has contributed to a drop in the usual household size, which fell from 2.6 people in 2011 to 2.3 today.
33.2% ▲ +39.9%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Murray Bridge splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 20.3% of the total, a figure that is much higher than most areas and well above the South Australian average. This proportion has grown by 5.4 percentage points over the last ten years.
20.3% ▲ +35.9%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Murray Bridge, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (32%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Murray Bridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL413002/murray-bridge/topic/family-households