2.0 ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Quorn · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Quorn
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of households in Quorn are people living alone, which is far above the national figure. This means the area has a much smaller typical home size than most other places, with just 2.0 people per dwelling.
2.0
▲ +5.3%
- 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 Quorn — lower than 86% of areas.
| Quorn | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 5433, SA | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 39.6% of residents live alone, a figure that is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical household size is much lower than most areas.
39.6% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 39.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Quorn splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.0% of the community, which is a little above the national figure and has risen since 2011. Couples with and without children are more common, each representing around 41% of families.
17.0% ▲ +33.8%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Quorn splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (41%), with One-parent families at 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 Quorn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421034/quorn/topic/family-households