1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Port Victoria · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Port Victoria
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Port Victoria than in previous years. This shift has led to a smaller typical household size, with 39.4% of homes now containing just one person. These figures are far above both the state and national averages.
1.9
▼ -13.6%
- 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 Port Victoria — lower than 93% of areas.
| Port Victoria | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5573, SA | 2.3 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 1.9 people live in the typical home, which is well below the South Australian figure of 2.4. This reflects a trend toward smaller households, with the number of people per home falling since 2011.
39.4% ▲ +26.7%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Port Victoria splits fairly evenly between 2 people (44%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families are couples without children, making up 51% of the group. One-parent families make up 13.4% of the total, which is lower than most areas and has fallen since 2011.
13.4% ▼ -25.3%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Port Victoria, the largest group is Couples without children at 50%, followed by Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (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 Port Victoria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422044/port-victoria/topic/family-households