2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Boomer Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Boomer Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Boomer Bay than in most similar areas. While couples with children make up 45.3% of the community, the area has a striking number of single-person households, with 36.4% of homes housing only one person.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Boomer Bay — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than usual, with 2.2 people per house compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, which is far above the Australian average of 25.6%.
36.4% ▲ +33.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Boomer Bay, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (36%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 7.0% of the total, a figure that is well below both the Tasmanian and national averages. Most families are couples, with 41.9% having no children.
7.0% ▼ -51.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Boomer Bay splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (48%) and Couples without children (44%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Boomer Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60062/boomer-bay/topic/family-households