2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Maitland · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Maitland
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Maitland than in most similar areas, with 33.6% of households being single-person homes. This is well above the national figure of 25.6% and makes the community's homes smaller on average than those across South Australia.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Maitland — lower than 64% of areas.
| Maitland | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 5573, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Maitland holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the South Australian figure. This is helped by the high number of single-person households, which stay steady at around 33.6%.
33.6% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Maitland, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (34%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 43.8% of families, while couples without children account for 39.6%. One-parent families make up 14.5%, a figure that has fallen by 3 points since 2011 and is now about the same as the state average.
14.5% ▼ -17.2%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Maitland splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families at 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 Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415023/maitland/topic/family-households