1.9 ▼ -29.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Boat Harbour Beach · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living in each home in Boat Harbour Beach than in years past. This is a small area where nearly half of all homes are occupied by just one person, making it much more likely for people to live alone compared to the rest of the country.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Boat Harbour Beach — lower than 89% of areas.
Average household size.
Almost 46% of people here live alone, which is far above the national figure of 26%. Because of this, the typical home in Boat Harbour Beach holds only 1.9 people, well below the Tasmanian average of 2.4.
1.9 ▼ -29.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
45.5% ▲ +100.8%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Boat Harbour Beach, the largest group is 1 person at 47%, followed by 2 people (35%) and 3 people (12%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up 56.6% of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.4% of the total, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
9.4% ▲ +132.5%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Boat Harbour Beach splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (48%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 8%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Boat Harbour Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60059/boat-harbour-beach/topic/family-households