1.8 ▼ -41.9%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Clayton Bay · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Clayton Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Few places in the region have as many small households as Clayton Bay, where 41.6% of people live alone. This trend has grown quickly over the last decade, and the area now sees far fewer people per home than the state or national average.
1.8
▼ -41.9%
- 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 Clayton Bay — lower than 99% of areas.
| Clayton Bay | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 5256, SA | 2.0 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds just 1.8 people, a figure that has fallen sharply since 2011. This is well below the national average of 2.5, with 41.6% of residents living by themselves.
41.6% ▲ +185.5%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Clayton Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 people (45%) and 1 person (43%), with 3 people at 5%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples without children, making up 64.1% of the total. Only 7.2% are one-parent families, which is well below the South Australian figure of 14.8%.
7.2% ▲ +184.9%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Clayton Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 64%; Couples with children is next at 29%.
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 Clayton Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422015/clayton-bay/topic/family-households