2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Port Pirie · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Port Pirie
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of all homes in Port Pirie are occupied by just one person. This is far above the national figure and helps explain why households here are smaller than in most other areas. The trend toward smaller living arrangements has grown steadily over the last decade.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Port Pirie — lower than 64% of areas.
| Port Pirie | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 5540, SA | 2.2 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.2 people live in the typical home, which is a little below the South Australian and national figures. This is partly because 36.5% of people live alone, a figure that rose 7.1 percentage points since 2011.
36.5% ▲ +24.1%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Port Pirie splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.8% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion of families has risen by 4.2 percentage points since 2011.
21.8% ▲ +23.9%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Port Pirie, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (22%).
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 Port Pirie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL413005/port-pirie/topic/family-households