2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tanja · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tanja
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than four in ten people live alone in Tanja, making it an area where small households are very common. This trend is far more frequent here than in the rest of New South Wales, with the typical home holding just two people.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Tanja — lower than 86% of areas.
| Tanja | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2550, NSW | 2.3 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 43.8% of households are just one person, a rate far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
43.8% ▲ +51.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tanja splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single parents make up 20.7% of families in Tanja, which is well above the 14.1% national average. Couples without children are the most common family type at 46.8%.
20.7% ▲ +76.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tanja, the largest group is Couples without children at 45%, followed by Couples with children (33%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Tanja [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13765/tanja/topic/family-households