1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Primrose Sands · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Primrose Sands
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Primrose Sands, where 42% of people live on their own. This makes it a place with far fewer people per home than the national average. While many residents live alone, there is also a notable presence of single-parent families compared to other areas.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 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 Primrose Sands — lower than 89% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 42% of people living alone, Primrose Sands has a typical home size of 1.9 people, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. This rate of single-person households is among the highest for similar areas.
42.0% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 41.4%
- 2021: 42.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Primrose Sands splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.7% of the total, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Nearly half of all families here are couples without children, at 48.2%.
18.7% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Primrose Sands, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (31%) and One-parent families (19%).
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 Primrose Sands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60522/primrose-sands/topic/family-households