2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 79% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
7261, TAS · Postcode
Family & Households in 7261, TAS
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher rates of people living alone than most similar areas define the 7261 postcode. While 33% of residents live by themselves, the typical home here is smaller than the national figure, with just 2.2 people per household.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 7261, TAS — lower than 79% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About a third of households are single-person homes, which is well above the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why the typical home is smaller than in most other areas, a trend that has barely changed since 2011.
33.0% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 78% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In 7261, TAS, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 43.6%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.6% of the total, a figure that is well below the Tasmanian average and has fallen since 2011.
11.6% ▼ -33.2%
Lower than 56% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →7261, TAS splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (41%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 7261, TAS [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA7261/7261-tas/topic/family-households