2.3 ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rose Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Rose Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Rose Bay than in most similar areas. This is a small community where about 28% of households consist of a single person, contributing to a typical home size that is slightly smaller than the national figure.
2.3
▲ +4.5%
- 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 Rose Bay — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 2.3 people per home, Rose Bay is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian figure of 2.5. Two-person households are the most common, making up 39.4% of the area.
27.7% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Rose Bay, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 45.6% of families here, while couples without children account for 42.2%. One-parent families represent 11.7% of the total, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 15.9%.
11.7% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Rose Bay splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (46%) and Couples without children (42%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Rose Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60567/rose-bay/topic/family-households