2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Riverton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Riverton
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher proportion of people live alone in Riverton (L) than across Australia. This contributes to a small typical household size of just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Riverton — lower than 86% of areas.
| Riverton | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 5412, SA | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 37.5% of residents live by themselves, a figure that is far above the Australian average and has risen nearly 10 percentage points since 2011. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 39.3% of all households.
37.5% ▲ +35.0%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Riverton splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23.7% of the area, which is well above both the state and national figures. This proportion has grown by 7.9 percentage points since 2011, while couples without children remain the most common family type at 41.7%.
23.7% ▲ +50.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Riverton, the largest group is Couples without children at 41%, followed by Couples with children (36%) and One-parent families (23%).
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 Riverton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421035/riverton/topic/family-households