2.8 ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bagdad · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Bagdad
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become a defining feature of Bagdad, where the typical home now holds 2.8 people. This is much higher than most similar areas. It is a place where family living dominates and very few people live by themselves.
2.8
▲ +3.7%
- 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 Bagdad — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up only 16.7% of households, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 29%. This helps explain why homes here are larger than usual, with 37% of households containing two people and 18.3% containing four.
16.7% ▼ -0.9%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Bagdad, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 4 people (18%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 57.3%. One-parent families account for 16.7% of the total, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the national average of 14.1%.
16.7% ▲ +31.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bagdad, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Bagdad [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60026/bagdad/topic/family-households