1.9 ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Low Head · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Low Head
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Low Head, where nearly half of all homes are occupied by just one person. This makes the area stand out as a place with very few large families compared to the rest of the state.
1.9
▼ -13.6%
- 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 Low Head — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 43.1% of people living alone, Low Head has a far higher rate of single-person homes than both Tasmania and Australia. This helps explain why the typical home here has only 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
43.1% ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 43.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Low Head splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (41%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families here at 54.3%. One-parent families account for 10.2% of the total, a figure that is well below the Tasmanian and national averages.
10.2% ▼ -3.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Low Head, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 35%.
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 Low Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60357/low-head/topic/family-households