1.6 ▼ -42.9%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swan Reach · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Swan Reach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all homes in Swan Reach are occupied by just one person. This is a sparsely populated area where small households are the norm, with the typical home holding only 1.6 people—well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.6
▼ -42.9%
- 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 Swan Reach — lower than 99% of areas.
| Swan Reach | 1.6 |
|---|---|
| 5354, SA | 1.7 |
| South Australia | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 53.3% of people in single-person homes, a figure that has risen 36 points since 2011. This has pushed the number of people per home down to 1.6, which is among the lowest for similar areas.
53.3% ▲ +204.4%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 53.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Swan Reach, 1 person is the majority at 56%; 2 people is next at 38%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.4% of the local total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Most families in the area are couples without children, accounting for 61.2% of the total.
20.4% ▲ +73.7%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Swan Reach, Couples without children is the majority at 59%; Couples with children is next at 21%.
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 Swan Reach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422053/swan-reach/topic/family-households