2.6 ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Pegarah · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Pegarah
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Pegarah, where only 13.5% of people live alone. This makes it a place where few people live by themselves compared to the rest of the state and country. Most homes here are shared, creating a community where living in groups or families is the common experience.
2.6
▲ +18.2%
- 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 Pegarah — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With a typical 2.6 people per home, Pegarah has more residents per household than most areas and is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. Nearly half of all households consist of two people, while 13.5% are single-person homes, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%.
13.5% ▼ -40.2%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Pegarah, 2 people is the majority at 52%; 1 person is next at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 61.7% of families here, while those without children account for 33%. Only 7% of families are one-parent households, a figure that is well below both the Tasmanian average of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
7.0% ▲ +85.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Pegarah, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Pegarah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60498/pegarah/topic/family-households