2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hillcrest · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hillcrest
How families and households are made up across the area.
A huge 34.1% of people live alone in Hillcrest, which is well above the national figure. This makes the area's typical home smaller than most, with just 2.2 people per household.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Hillcrest — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 34.1% of residents living alone, this figure is much higher than most similar areas. Consequently, the typical home holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Tasmanian average of 2.4.
34.1% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hillcrest splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.4% of the total, a figure that is far above the Australian average of 14.1% and among the highest for areas of this size.
25.4% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hillcrest, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by One-parent families (26%) and Couples without children (25%).
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 Hillcrest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60274/hillcrest/topic/family-households