2.1 ▲ +10.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hawker · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Hawker
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of people in Hawker live alone, which is well above the national figure. This high number of single-person households means the area has fewer people per home than most other places. Overall, Hawker is a small community where households are typically smaller than those across South Australia.
2.1
▲ +10.5%
- 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 Hawker — lower than 71% of areas.
| Hawker | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 5434, SA | 2.2 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Hawker has 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. While 34.7% of people live alone—a rate well above the state average—this figure has fallen by 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
34.7% ▼ -9.2%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 45.5%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hawker splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (36%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 42.7%, followed closely by couples without children at 40%. One-parent families make up 12.7% of the total, which is a little below the South Australian average of 14.8%.
12.7% ▲ +22.9%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Hawker splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (42%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 Hawker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422021/hawker/topic/family-households