2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Plenty · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Plenty
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty per cent of homes in Plenty are occupied by people living alone, one of the highest rates for this type of area. This creates a unique mix where many residents live solo, yet the typical home still holds 2.6 people, which is a little above the Tasmanian figure.
2.6
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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 Plenty — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Four in ten residents live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. Despite this, larger homes are common, with 32% of households containing four people.
40.0% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Plenty, the largest group is 1 person at 36%, followed by 4 people (29%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up the bulk of the area at 67.8%. In a stark contrast to the rest of the country, there are no one-parent families recorded here.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Plenty, Couples with children is the majority at 74%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Plenty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60508/plenty/topic/family-households