2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 90% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
7468, TAS · Postcode
Family & Households in 7468, TAS
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in postcode 7468, where 39% of people live alone. This is far above the national figure and reflects a trend toward smaller homes, with the typical number of people per home falling to 2.0 since 2011.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 7468, TAS — lower than 90% of areas.
| 7468, TAS | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| West Coast | 2.0 |
| Tasmania | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 39.0% of households consisting of one person, a figure well above the Tasmanian average of 29.0%. This high rate of single-person homes helps explain why the typical home has only 2.0 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5.
39.0% ▲ +16.9%
Higher than 92% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →7468, TAS splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (35%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 48.5% of families, while 41.0% are couples without children. Only 9.8% are one-parent families, which is well below the figures for both Tasmania and Australia.
9.8% ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 72% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 7468, TAS, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (10%).
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 7468, TAS [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA7468/7468-tas/topic/family-households