1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ardrossan · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Ardrossan
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living together in Ardrossan than they were a decade ago. The town is now defined by small households, with the typical home holding just 1.9 people—a figure well below the national average of 2.5.
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 Ardrossan — lower than 93% of areas.
| Ardrossan | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5571, SA | 2.0 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 40% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This contributes to a very small household size, as 45.2% of homes contain only two people.
39.1% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.9%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ardrossan, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (40%) and 3 people (7%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 8.7% of the total, which is much lower than most areas and has fallen 6.5 points since 2011. Couples without children are the most common family type at 56.1%.
8.7% ▼ -42.9%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ardrossan, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 35%.
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 Ardrossan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421001/ardrossan/topic/family-households