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.
Cambridge · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cambridge
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger homes are common in Cambridge, where a typical household has 2.6 people. This is a little above the Tasmanian figure and suggests a place where more people live together than in many other areas.
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 Cambridge — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 33.8% of homes hold two people, while 23.2% are for one person. This means far fewer people live alone here compared to the Tasmanian average.
23.2% ▲ +23.3%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cambridge, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 58.2%. One-parent families account for 11.7%, which is well below the state figure.
11.7% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cambridge, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Cambridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60090/cambridge/topic/family-households