2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Spalford · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Spalford
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty per cent of homes in Spalford are lived in by a single person, which is one of the highest rates for areas like this. This high number of lone residents shapes the local profile, though typical household sizes remain around the national figure of 2.5 people.
2.5
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- 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 Spalford — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Four in ten people here live alone, a figure far above the Tasmania average of 29% and the national rate of 25.6%. This high proportion of single-person homes is matched by those with two people, who also make up 40% of households.
40.0% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Spalford splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (42%), with 4 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the most common family type at 42.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up 6.7% of the area, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
6.7% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Spalford, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Spalford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60626/spalford/topic/family-households