3.0 ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Glenfern · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Glenfern
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 63.4% of families in Glenfern, making it a place where large households are the norm. The area sees far fewer people living alone than the national figure, with the typical home holding more people than most other areas.
3.0
▲ +11.1%
- 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 Glenfern — higher than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 3.0 people per home compared to the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. Only 12% of people live alone, which is far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
12.0% ▼ -18.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Glenfern, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 4 people (17%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.9% of the total, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 14.1% and much higher than in most similar areas.
17.9% ▲ +169.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Glenfern, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 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 Glenfern [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60231/glenfern/topic/family-households