2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dromedary · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Dromedary
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm for Dromedary, where an unusually high number of people share each home. This shift away from small living is seen in the low number of people living alone and a strong presence of families with children.
2.8
→ 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 Dromedary — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than in most areas, with 2.8 people per home compared to 2.5 nationally. This is reflected in the fact that only 16.3% of people live alone, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 29%.
16.3% ▲ +24.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Dromedary, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 3 people (17%) and 1 person (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 64.7%. This helps explain why one-parent families are less common here at 7.9%, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
7.9% ▼ -31.7%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dromedary, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Dromedary [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60168/dromedary/topic/family-households