2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Calder · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Calder
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are common in Calder, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This is much higher than most areas, with a strong presence of families with children and far fewer people living on their own compared to the rest of the state.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Calder — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are typically larger than the national figure, with 39% of households containing two people and 17.1% holding four or more. Only 17.1% of people live alone, which is well below the Australian figure of 25.6%.
17.1% ▼ -15.3%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Calder, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 3 people (20%) and 1 person (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 58.1%, while one-parent families are rare at 7.1%. This proportion of single-parent homes is well below both the Tasmanian and national figures.
7.1% ▼ -5.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Calder, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Calder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60089/calder/topic/family-households