1.8 ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Blanchetown · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Blanchetown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Blanchetown are occupied by just one person. This creates a quiet residential feel, as the typical home holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.8
▼ -18.2%
- 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 Blanchetown — lower than 99% of areas.
| Blanchetown | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 5357, SA | 2.0 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here, making up 44.8% of all households. This is far above the South Australian figure of 28.5%, and the proportion of people living alone has risen by 14 points since 2011.
44.8% ▲ +45.7%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 44.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Blanchetown splits fairly evenly between 1 person (44%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up nearly half of all families at 49%. Meanwhile, one-parent families now account for 13.8% of the total, which is a rise of 4.8 points since 2011.
13.8% ▲ +52.9%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Blanchetown, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (35%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Blanchetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422007/blanchetown/topic/family-households