2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 90% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
7184, TAS · Postcode
Family & Households in 7184, TAS
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in postcode 7184 than in most similar areas, with 40.6% of households consisting of just one person. This has contributed to a small typical household size of 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 1.0: 3 areas
- 1.1: 1 area
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 1 area
- 1.4: 1 area
- 1.5: 4 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 16 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 61 areas
- 2.0: 101 areas
- 2.1: 182 areas
- 2.2: 257 areas
- 2.3: 365 areas
- 2.4: 338 areas
- 2.5: 338 areas
- 2.6: 233 areas
- 2.7: 223 areas
- 2.8: 157 areas
- 2.9: 127 areas
- 3.0: 75 areas
- 3.1: 49 areas
- 3.2: 40 areas
- 3.3: 13 areas
- 3.4: 10 areas
- 3.5: 6 areas
- 3.6: 3 areas
- 3.7: 1 area
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 0 areas
- 4.2: 1 area
All postcode areas, 2021. The marker is 7184, TAS — lower than 90% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with the share of one-person households rising to 40.6% since 2011. This is far above the Tasmanian figure of 29.0%, and helps explain why this area has some of the lowest numbers of people per home in the region.
40.6% ▲ +22.5%
Higher than 94% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →7184, TAS splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.0% of the total, a figure that is much higher than most areas and has risen by 5.4 percentage points since 2011. Couples without children are the most common family type at 44.2%.
17.0% ▲ +47.0%
Higher than 82% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 7184, TAS, the largest group is Couples without children at 44%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 7184, TAS [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA7184/7184-tas/topic/family-households