3.0 → 0.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Scotchtown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Scotchtown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Scotchtown, where 3.0 people typically live in each home. This is well above the Tasmanian figure of 2.4 and suggests a community dominated by larger family groups rather than single occupants.
3.0
→ 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 Scotchtown — higher than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are often crowded, with 17.9% of households containing five people. This helps explain why only 19% of residents live alone, a figure well below the 25.6% national average.
19.0% ▲ +81.0%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Scotchtown, the largest group is 2 people at 29%, followed by 1 person (17%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is centred on couples with children, who make up 68% of all families. Meanwhile, one-parent families are rare at 6.9%, which is well below the state average of 15.9%.
6.9% ▼ -54.9%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Scotchtown, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Scotchtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60591/scotchtown/topic/family-households