2.0 ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Flinders · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Flinders
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define daily life in Flinders, where nearly 40% of all homes are occupied by just one person. This is a significant contrast to the rest of the country, making it one of the areas with the fewest people per home in the region.
2.0
▲ +5.3%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Flinders — lower than 95% of areas.
| Flinders | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Tas. | 2.3 |
| Tasmania | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 40% of residents live alone, a figure that has risen since 2011 and sits far above the national average. With the typical home holding only 2.0 people, this is among the lowest rate for the region.
39.2% ▲ +14.2%
Higher than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Flinders splits fairly evenly between 2 people (43%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up nearly half of all families here. In contrast, one-parent families account for only 8.2%, which is well below both the Tasmanian and Australian figures.
8.2% ▼ -3.9%
Lower than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Flinders, the largest group is Couples without children at 50%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (8%).
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 Flinders [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA62010/flinders/topic/family-households