2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rokeby · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Rokeby
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of one-parent families live in Rokeby compared to the rest of Tasmania. While the typical home here holds about 2.5 people, there is a strong presence of single-parent households and people living on their own.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Rokeby — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 28.2% of people here live alone, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the national figure of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 31.6% of all households.
28.2% ▲ +7.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Rokeby splits fairly evenly between 2 people (32%) and 1 person (28%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 28.2% of the local total, a figure that is far above the Tasmanian average of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%. Couples with children are the largest group at 47.2%.
28.2% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Rokeby, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by One-parent families (28%) and Couples without children (23%).
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 Rokeby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60564/rokeby/topic/family-households