1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tumby Bay · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Tumby Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Tumby Bay are couples without children. This is a place where small households are the norm, with nearly 40% of homes containing just one person.
1.9
▼ -9.5%
- 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 Tumby Bay — lower than 93% of areas.
| Tumby Bay | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5605, SA | 2.0 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Tumby Bay has only 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This trend of smaller households has grown since 2011, and 39.6% of residents now live alone—a rate far above the Australian average.
39.6% ▲ +6.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 39.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tumby Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 people (43%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up 52% of families here. One-parent families account for 10.7%, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the South Australian figure of 14.8%.
10.7% ▲ +13.0%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tumby Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 37%.
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 Tumby Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415042/tumby-bay/topic/family-households