2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Devonport · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Devonport
How families and households are made up across the area.
A much higher share of people live alone in Devonport than in most similar areas. This trend is reflected in the typical home, which holds 2.2 people—a little below the state and national figures. These patterns make the local household makeup quite distinct from other parts of the country.
2.2
→ 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 Devonport — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here, making up 35.5% of all households, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the usual home in Devonport holds 2.2 people, slightly fewer than the 2.5 people seen across Australia.
35.5% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Devonport splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.6% of the total, a figure that is well above both the Tasmanian (15.9%) and national (14.1%) averages. Other common setups include couples with children at 45.5% and couples without children at 31.5%.
21.6% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Devonport, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (31%) and One-parent families (22%).
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 Devonport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60156/devonport/topic/family-households