2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hampshire · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hampshire
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of the families in Hampshire are couples with children, making it a place where family units are very common. While the typical home holds 2.5 people, there are far fewer people living alone here than in the rest of Tasmania or across Australia.
2.5
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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 Hampshire — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Half of all homes in Hampshire house two people, while 22.7% have four. Only 18.2% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
18.2% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Hampshire, 2 people is the majority at 55%; 4 people is next at 25%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples, with 55.6% raising children and 41.7% without. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, a figure far below the 14.1% national average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hampshire, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 43%.
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 Hampshire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60260/hampshire/topic/family-households