2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Battery Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Battery Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Battery Point are couples without children, making it a place of small households. The area is defined by a high proportion of people living alone and a very low number of single-parent families.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Battery Point — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is consistent with the fact that 41.2% of households are just one person, a figure far above both the state and national averages.
41.2% ▲ +19.1%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Battery Point splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 5.7% of the total, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 15.9%. Most families here are couples, with 53.2% having no children and 40.5% with children.
5.7% ▼ -43.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Battery Point, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 40%.
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 Battery Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60033/battery-point/topic/family-households