1.8 —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Pelham · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Pelham
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer than two people typically live in each home in Pelham, making it an area with very small households. This is well below the usual patterns seen across Tasmania and the rest of the country.
1.8
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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 Pelham — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With only 1.8 people per home, Pelham has some of the lowest household sizes at this level. This figure is well below the Tasmanian average of 2.4 and the national figure of 2.5.
Household size
View on map →In Pelham, 1 person is the majority at 60%; 2 people is next at 40%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
The most common family composition is Couples without children at 55%, ahead of One-parent families (55%).
Family composition
View on map →Pelham splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (38%), with Couples with children at 25%.
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 Pelham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60499/pelham/topic/family-households