1.8 ▼ -25.0%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tammin · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tammin
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in Tammin are occupied by just one person. This high number of single-person households means the town has a much smaller typical home size than the rest of the state. It is a place where living alone is far more common than in most other Australian areas.
1.8
▼ -25.0%
- 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 Tammin — lower than 91% of areas.
| Tammin | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 6409, WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 56.9% of people living alone, Tammin has one of the highest rates of single-person households in the region. This helps explain why the typical home has only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
56.9% ▲ +57.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 43.2%
- 2021: 56.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tammin, 1 person is the majority at 55%; 2 people is next at 30%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 47.8% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This is among the highest proportions of single-parent families for areas of this type.
47.8% ▲ +133.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 47.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tammin, the largest group is One-parent families at 50%, followed by Couples without children (32%) and Couples with children (14%).
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 Tammin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51431/tammin/topic/family-households