2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Penna · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Penna
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Penna than in most other areas, with 2.7 people typically living in each house. This creates a community where few people live by themselves and half of all families are couples raising children.
2.7
→ 0.0%
- 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 Penna — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 11.9% of people here live alone, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 29%. With typical homes holding 2.7 people, this is higher than the state average of 2.4.
11.9% ▼ -29.3%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Penna, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 3 people (19%) and 1 person (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 50.1% of families, while 36.4% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 11.7%, which is well below the 15.9% seen across Tasmania.
11.7% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Penna, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Penna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60502/penna/topic/family-households