2.7 ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Glengarry · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Glengarry
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Glengarry than in the rest of Tasmania, where the gap is 16 percentage points. Glengarry is a place of larger households, with 2.7 people typically sharing a home. This is a little above the state figure.
2.7
▼ -3.6%
- 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 Glengarry — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has 2.7 people, which is higher than most areas. Only 13% of people live alone, a figure far below the Tasmanian average of 29%.
13.0% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Glengarry, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 4 people (18%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 57.1% of the total. One-parent families account for 11.7%, which is well below the state figure of 15.9%.
11.7% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Glengarry, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Glengarry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60232/glengarry/topic/family-households