2.2 ▼ -21.4%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Millicent · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Millicent
How families and households are made up across the area.
A growing number of people living alone has changed the face of Millicent, where 37.1% of households are now single-person homes. This shift means smaller households are now the norm, with the typical home holding just 2.2 people.
2.2
▼ -21.4%
- 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 Millicent — lower than 64% of areas.
| Millicent | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 5280, SA | 2.2 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes have surged by 24 percentage points since 2011, leaving Millicent with a far higher rate of people living alone than the national figure of 25.6%. Consequently, the number of people per home has fallen to 2.2, which is a little below the South Australian average.
37.1% ▲ +175.6%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Millicent splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (36%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.1% of the area, a figure that has risen by 8.3 percentage points since 2011. This is a little above the national rate of 14.1%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 46.1%.
17.1% ▲ +95.8%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Millicent, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Millicent [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415029/millicent/topic/family-households