1.9 ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Snowtown · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Snowtown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all homes in Snowtown are now occupied by people living alone, a huge jump from 2011. This shift has made the town's households much smaller than the rest of the state, with only 1.9 people per home on average.
1.9
▼ -17.4%
- 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 Snowtown — lower than 93% of areas.
| Snowtown | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 5520, SA | 2.1 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 48.2% of residents live by themselves, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This high number of single-person homes means Snowtown has some of the lowest occupancy rates in the region.
48.2% ▲ +61.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 48.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Snowtown, the largest group is 1 person at 47%, followed by 2 people (35%) and 4 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23.0% of the total, which is well above the South Australian average of 14.8%. This proportion has grown by 8.0 percentage points since 2011.
23.0% ▲ +53.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Snowtown, the largest group is Couples without children at 41%, followed by Couples with children (34%) and One-parent families (23%).
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 Snowtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422048/snowtown/topic/family-households