2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Epping Forest · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Epping Forest
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Epping Forest than in the rest of Tasmania. This trend helps explain why the typical home here is smaller, with only 2.2 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5.
2.2
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- 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 Epping Forest — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 42.4% of residents live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This contributes to the area having fewer people per home than most other places.
42.4% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Epping Forest, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 1 person (42%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
While nearly half of families are couples with children, there are no one-parent families in the area, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 15.9%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Epping Forest, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 38%.
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 Epping Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60191/epping-forest/topic/family-households