2.4 ▼ -7.7%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lapoinya · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lapoinya
How families and households are made up across the area.
Only 15.8% of people in Lapoinya live alone, a figure well below the national average. This trend helps explain why nearly half of the local households consist of couples with children. The area is dominated by family groups rather than single-person homes.
2.4
▼ -7.7%
- 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 Lapoinya — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Two-person households are the most common here at 49.1%. With only 15.8% of people living alone, this is far below the Tasmanian figure of 29%.
15.8% ▼ -37.9%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lapoinya, the largest group is 2 people at 50%, followed by 4 people (18%) and 1 person (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 48.2% of families, while those without children account for 39.3%. One-parent families are less common here at 7.1%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
7.1% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lapoinya, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 42%.
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 Lapoinya [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60319/lapoinya/topic/family-households