1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Auburn · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Auburn
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people have been living alone in Auburn since 2011, with 42.1% of households now consisting of just one person. This is far above the national figure of 25.6%, making Auburn a place where small households are very common.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 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 Auburn — lower than 93% of areas.
| Auburn | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5451, SA | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Auburn has only 1.9 people, which is well below the South Australian figure of 2.4. This trend is driven by the high number of single-person households, which rose to 42.1% since 2011.
42.1% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 42.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Auburn splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (41%), with 4 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About 40.2% of families here include children, while 47.8% are couples without them. One-parent families make up 10.0% of the total, which is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
10.0% ▼ -1.5%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Auburn, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (41%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 Auburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422006/auburn/topic/family-households