2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Leith · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Leith
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are sharing homes in Leith than in most similar areas, with 2.6 people living in the typical household. This is a place where few people live alone and a large majority of households are families.
2.6
▼ -3.7%
- 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 Leith — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 15.7% of people here live alone, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 29.0%. Two-person households are the most common, making up 43.6% of the area.
15.7% ▼ -5.2%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Leith, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (16%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54.5% of families, while one-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, accounting for just 5.6%.
5.6% ▲ +13.1%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Leith, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
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 Leith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60329/leith/topic/family-households