3.0 —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Red Hills · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Red Hills
How families and households are made up across the area.
Three people per home is the typical experience in Red Hills, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. This is a place of large households and strong family ties, with very few residents living on their own compared to the rest of the country.
3.0
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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 Red Hills — higher than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Only 16.7% of people live alone, a figure that is far below the Tasmanian average. This helps explain why home sizes are much higher than most areas, with 27.8% of households containing five people.
16.7% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Red Hills splits fairly evenly between 5 people (32%) and 2 people (29%), with 1 person at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is central here, as 66% of families are couples with children. Only 6.2% are one-parent families, which is well below both the state and national figures.
6.2% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Red Hills, Couples with children is the majority at 69%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Red Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60540/red-hills/topic/family-households