2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mallala · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mallala
How families and households are made up across the area.
More one-parent families have settled in Mallala since 2011, where this group now makes up 17.6% of all households. This rise helps explain why the area has a higher proportion of single-parent homes than most similar places. Most households here are small, with 35.4% containing just two people.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Mallala — higher than 64% of areas.
| Mallala | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 5502, SA | 2.6 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes in Mallala hold 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure. Fewer people live alone here than in most other areas, with only 24.2% of households being single-person homes.
24.2% ▼ -0.7%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mallala, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
More than half of all families are couples with children, making up 52.4% of the group. One-parent families are well above the national figure at 17.6%, a significant increase from 11.3% in 2011.
17.6% ▲ +56.1%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mallala, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Mallala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421023/mallala/topic/family-households