2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Exeter · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Exeter
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define daily life in Exeter, where the typical home holds just 2.3 people. This is a little below the national figure, reflecting a community where two-person homes are the most common arrangement.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Exeter — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 29% of people here live alone, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most frequent, making up 41.9% of all households.
29.0% ▲ +2.7%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Exeter, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 44.7% of families, while those without children account for 40.2%. One-parent families represent 14.7% of the total, a figure that has fallen 8.2 percentage points since 2011.
14.7% ▼ -35.9%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Exeter splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families at 15%.
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 Exeter [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615007/exeter/topic/family-households