2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ranelagh · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ranelagh
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share each home in Ranelagh than in most similar areas. This is a family-heavy community where only 20.6% of households consist of a single person, which is well below the national figure.
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 Ranelagh — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 2.7 people per dwelling. This is a little above the Tasmanian figure and helps explain why far fewer people live alone compared to the rest of the state.
20.6% ▲ +5.2%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ranelagh, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 4 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 58.5%. While one-parent families are more common here than in similar areas, they represent 12.4% of the total, which is a little below the Australian average.
12.4% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ranelagh, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Ranelagh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60536/ranelagh/topic/family-households