2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brighton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brighton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are more common in Brighton than in most similar areas. This is a place where family living is the norm, with a typical home holding 2.6 people and far fewer residents living alone compared to state and national figures.
2.6
→ 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 Brighton — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.6 people, which is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. Only 22.1% of people live alone, a figure well below both the state (29%) and the Australian average (25.6%).
22.1% ▲ +15.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Brighton, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 1 person (22%) and 3 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 19% of the total, which is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 14.1%. More than half of all families are couples with children, at 55.6%.
19.0% ▲ +10.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brighton, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Brighton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60075/brighton/topic/family-households