2.2 ▼ -12.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ouse · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ouse
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Ouse consist of couples with children. This community has a high number of people living alone, which helps explain why the typical home here holds fewer people than the state or national figure.
2.2
▼ -12.0%
- 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 Ouse — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 35.8% of people in Ouse live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home has 2.2 people, a little below the 2.4 seen across Tasmania.
35.8% ▲ +47.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ouse splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (36%), with 4 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 50.7% of families here. One-parent families account for 14.3%, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and about the same as the national average.
14.3% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ouse, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Ouse [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60484/ouse/topic/family-households