1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yorketown · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Yorketown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person households have increased significantly in Yorketown since 2011. This shift has led to a smaller typical home size, with 43.7% of all households now consisting of just one person. This is far above the national figure and marks a notable change in how people live in the area.
1.9
▼ -13.6%
- 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 Yorketown — lower than 93% of areas.
| Yorketown | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5576, SA | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Fewer people are living together in Yorketown, with only 1.9 people per home, which is well below the South Australian figure of 2.4. This is driven by a high number of people living alone, a figure that rose 8.6 percentage points since 2011 to reach 43.7%.
43.7% ▲ +24.5%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 43.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Yorketown, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (37%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 7.4% of the local mix, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. Most families here are couples, with 44.7% having children and 43.5% without.
7.4% ▲ +45.7%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Yorketown splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (46%) and Couples without children (44%), with One-parent families at 8%.
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 Yorketown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421043/yorketown/topic/family-households