2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Victor Harbor · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Victor Harbor
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living in each home in Victor Harbor than they were in 2011. This shift has left the area with a smaller typical household size than most other parts of Australia. Today, nearly half of all homes are occupied by just two people.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Victor Harbor — lower than 86% of areas.
| Victor Harbor | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 5211, SA | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Victor Harbor now holds 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 33.9% of residents live alone, a rate well above both the state and national averages.
33.9% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Victor Harbor, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 1 person (34%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families here are couples without children, which is the most common family type. One-parent families make up 14.8% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the rest of the country but has fallen 4.4 percentage points since 2011.
14.8% ▼ -23.0%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Victor Harbor, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (35%) and One-parent families (15%).
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 Victor Harbor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL413006/victor-harbor/topic/family-households