2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tasman · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Tasman
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Tasman than in previous years, which has driven down the overall household size. This is now a place where nearly 38% of homes house just one person, a figure far above the national average.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Tasman — lower than 95% of areas.
| Tasman | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Tas. | 2.3 |
| Tasmania | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 37.9% of people living alone, Tasman has one of the highest rates for its level, and this has risen 7.7 percentage points since 2011. This trend helps explain why the typical home has only 2.0 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5.
37.9% ▲ +25.4%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tasman splits fairly evenly between 2 people (42%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Almost half of all families here are couples without children, making up 48.4% of the total. One-parent families account for 13.7%, a figure that has risen 2.8 percentage points since 2011 and is about the same as the national average.
13.7% ▲ +25.3%
Higher than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tasman, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Tasman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA65210/tasman/topic/family-households