2.3 ▲ +9.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Pleasant · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mount Pleasant
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than one in five families in Mount Pleasant are headed by a single parent, a rate much higher than most similar areas. While the typical home size is about the same as across South Australia, there has been a noticeable rise in one-parent families since 2011.
2.3
▲ +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 Mount Pleasant — lower than 57% of areas.
| Mount Pleasant | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 5235, SA | 2.4 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure. While 30.8% of residents live alone—well above the Australian average—this is 5.0 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
30.8% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Pleasant, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 20.7% of the total, which is well above both the state and national figures. This represents a significant increase from 2011, when only 11.8% of families were one-parent households.
20.7% ▲ +75.7%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Pleasant, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (21%).
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 Mount Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421027/mount-pleasant/topic/family-households