2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
St Helens · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in St Helens
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost 38% of people in St Helens live alone, which is far above the national figure. This high number of single-person homes means the typical household is much smaller than in most other areas.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 St Helens — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than usual, with only 2.0 people per household compared to 2.5 across Australia. This is driven by the fact that 37.9% of residents live alone, a figure well above the Tasmanian average.
37.9% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →St Helens splits fairly evenly between 2 people (42%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Nearly half of families in St Helens are couples without children. One-parent families make up 16.3% of the total, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
16.3% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In St Helens, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (37%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 St Helens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60632/st-helens/topic/family-households