1.8 → 0.0%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Burnie · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Burnie
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Burnie are occupied by just one person. This creates a small average household size of 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. The area is defined by a high number of single-person households and one-parent families.
1.8
→ 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 Burnie — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Almost half of all households (48.9%) consist of one person, a figure far above the Tasmanian average of 29%. Because so many people live alone, Burnie has some of the lowest numbers of people per home in the region at just 1.8.
48.9% ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.6%
- 2016: 53.8%
- 2021: 48.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Burnie, the largest group is 1 person at 48%, followed by 2 people (32%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23.3% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This group is among the highest for similar areas, while couples without children are the most common family type at 39.8%.
23.3% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Burnie, the largest group is Couples without children at 40%, followed by Couples with children (34%) and One-parent families (24%).
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 Burnie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60084/burnie/topic/family-households