2.0 ▲ +17.6%
Lower than 90% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 1.7
- 2016: 1.5
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
7257, TAS · Postcode
Family & Households in 7257, TAS
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in postcode 7257 are occupied by just one person. This makes the area feel very different from the rest of the state, with a high proportion of single-person households and a small typical household size of 2.0 people.
2.0
▲ +17.6%
- 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 7257, TAS — lower than 90% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A striking 53.8% of people live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This high number of single occupants helps explain why the typical home here has only 2.0 people, well below the Australian average of 2.5.
53.8% ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 50.0%
- 2016: 60.0%
- 2021: 53.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In 7257, TAS, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (34%) and 4 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single parents make up 29.5% of families, a figure far above the Tasmanian average of 15.9%. While this remains among the highest proportions for similar areas, it has fallen by 8.7 percentage points since 2011.
29.5% ▼ -22.7%
Higher than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 7257, TAS, the largest group is Couples with children at 40%, followed by One-parent families (31%) and Couples without children (29%).
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 7257, TAS [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA7257/7257-tas/topic/family-households