2.8 ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Rumney · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Rumney
How families and households are made up across the area.
Just 10.1% of people live alone in Mount Rumney, a figure far below the national average. This makes the area feel very family-oriented, with typical homes holding more people than those in most other parts of Australia.
2.8
▲ +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 Mount Rumney — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 2.8 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is reflected in the breakdown, where 44% of households contain two people and 18.3% have four.
10.1% ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Rumney, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 4 people (19%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly half of all families at 48.9%. One-parent families account for 11.6%, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 15.9%.
11.6% ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Rumney, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (40%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Mount Rumney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60432/mount-rumney/topic/family-households