2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sandford · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sandford
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Sandford than in the rest of Tasmania, with only 13.2% of households being single-person. This helps explain why the area has more people per home than most other places, with a typical household of 2.8 people.
2.8
→ 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 Sandford — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 41.3% of households containing two people and 17.1% holding four. This typical size of 2.8 people is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 2.4.
13.2% ▼ -10.3%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sandford, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 3 people (18%) and 4 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 57.6%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 10.3%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.3% ▲ +27.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sandford, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Sandford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60584/sandford/topic/family-households