2.9 —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Needles · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Needles
How families and households are made up across the area.
A gap of 14 percentage points separates Needles from the national figure for one-parent families, where none are recorded. This small area is mostly made up of families with children, and homes here hold more people than is typical across Tasmania.
2.9
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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 Needles — higher than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Needles are larger than usual, with 2.9 people per home. This is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 2.4 and the national figure of 2.5.
Household size
View on map →In Needles, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 4 people (33%) and 5 people (25%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life here is dominated by couples with children, who make up 59.5% of the area. Notably, one-parent families are at 0.0%, which is far below the 15.9% seen across Tasmania.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Needles, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Needles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60447/needles/topic/family-households