2.5 → 0.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Risdon Vale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Risdon Vale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Risdon Vale consist of couples with children. This creates a family-focused environment where the typical home contains 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure. However, the area has a notably high number of single-parent households.
2.5
→ 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 Risdon Vale — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Roughly 26.6% of people here live alone, a figure a little above the Australian average. Two-person homes are the most common household size at 32.4%.
26.6% ▼ -2.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Risdon Vale, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 28.7% of the total, which is far above the Tasmanian figure of 15.9% and among the highest for similar areas.
28.7% ▼ -2.3%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Risdon Vale, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by One-parent families (29%) and Couples without children (21%).
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 Risdon Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60556/risdon-vale/topic/family-households