2.6 ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nairne · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Nairne
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Nairne than in the rest of South Australia. This is a place where larger households are common, with most homes containing two or more people. This trend has grown over the last decade, making the area's household patterns quite different from the state average.
2.6
▲ +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 Nairne — higher than 71% of areas.
| Nairne | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 5252, SA | 2.6 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Nairne are more crowded than most, with a typical size of 2.6 people. Only 21% of residents live alone, which is well below the South Australian figure of 28.5% and represents a drop of 5.1 percentage points since 2011.
21.0% ▼ -19.4%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Nairne, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the local area at 61.1%. One-parent families account for 14.4% of the total, a figure that is about the same as both the state and national averages.
14.4% ▼ -1.2%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Nairne, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Nairne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL414002/nairne/topic/family-households