2.8 ▲ +12.0%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Charleston · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Charleston
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 66.1% of the families in Charleston (L), making it a very family-oriented area. Large households are the norm here, and there are far fewer people living alone than in the rest of the state.
2.8
▲ +12.0%
- 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 Charleston — higher than 81% of areas.
| Charleston | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 5244, SA | 2.6 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Charleston (L) are more crowded than usual, with 2.8 people per household. This is higher than the national figure of 2.5, and the number of people living alone has dropped sharply since 2011 to just 8.1%.
8.1% ▼ -75.1%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Charleston, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 3 people (27%) and 4 people (24%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 7.9% of the local total, which is well below the South Australian figure of 14.8%. This is a significant drop from 21.3% in 2011.
7.9% ▼ -63.1%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Charleston, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Charleston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422013/charleston/topic/family-households