2.1 —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Police Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Police Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Police Point are occupied by just one person. This makes the area far more likely to have single-person households than the rest of Tasmania or Australia, with the typical home holding only 2.1 people.
2.1
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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 Police Point — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here at 48.4%, a figure far above the Tasmanian rate of 29%. Consequently, the typical home has 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
48.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 48.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Police Point, the largest group is 1 person at 38%, followed by 2 people (30%) and 3 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Almost half of families are couples with children, while 44% are couples without. Notably, there are no one-parent families in the area, a result far below the national figure of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Police Point, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 48%.
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 Police Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60510/police-point/topic/family-households