2.5 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Southern Midlands · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Southern Midlands
How families and households are made up across the area.
More one-parent families have moved into Southern Midlands since 2011, though overall household sizes have stayed steady. The area is largely made up of family homes, with over half of all households consisting of couples with children.
2.5
→ 0.0%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Southern Midlands — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A typical home here has 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure. About 24.5% of people live alone, a rate that is well below the Tasmania average and has barely changed in ten years.
24.5% ▼ -0.3%
Lower than 53% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Southern Midlands, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 53.1%, while one-parent families account for 14.4%. This last group is more common here than in most similar areas and rose by 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
14.4% ▲ +17.2%
Higher than 60% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Southern Midlands, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Southern Midlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/603011067/southern-midlands/topic/family-households