2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Beaconsfield · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Beaconsfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Beaconsfield than in the typical Australian suburb. This creates a distinct housing pattern where smaller households are common, with a typical home holding just 2.2 people.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Beaconsfield — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 36.1% of households are one person, a figure far above the national rate of 25.6%. This means homes in Beaconsfield are slightly smaller than those in the rest of Tasmania and Australia.
36.1% ▲ +20.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Beaconsfield splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (35%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.5% of the total, which is well above both the state and national figures. Nearly half of all families are couples with children, while 31.6% are couples without children.
20.5% ▼ -5.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Beaconsfield, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (31%) 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 Beaconsfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60034/beaconsfield/topic/family-households