2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lower Barrington · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lower Barrington
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the biggest slice of the pie at 56.3% in Lower Barrington. This is a place where larger households are common, and far fewer people live on their own compared to the rest of the state.
2.6
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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 Lower Barrington — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here typically hold 2.6 people, which is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. Only 19.6% of households are single-person, a rate well below the 29% seen across Tasmania.
19.6% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lower Barrington, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (18%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples, with 56.3% having children and 35.7% without. Only 7% of families are headed by one parent, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
7.0% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lower Barrington, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Lower Barrington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60358/lower-barrington/topic/family-households