1.8 ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Port Vincent · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Port Vincent
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live in each home in Port Vincent than the national figure, with just 1.8 people per household. This small community is mostly made up of small households and couples without children, making it much smaller in scale than typical South Australian homes.
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 Port Vincent — lower than 99% of areas.
| Port Vincent | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 5581, SA | 1.8 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 38% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure of 26%. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical household size has dropped to 1.8 people since 2011.
37.9% ▼ -9.3%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.8%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Port Vincent, 2 people is the majority at 51%; 1 person is next at 37%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the vast majority of families at 74.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families are among the lowest in the region at 7.3%, a figure that has fallen 15 points since 2011.
7.3% ▼ -66.4%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Port Vincent, Couples without children is the majority at 74%; Couples with children is next at 17%.
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 Vincent [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422045/port-vincent/topic/family-households