2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Stowport · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Stowport
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer single-parent families live in Stowport than in the rest of Tasmania. This is a family-focused area where 56.1% of households consist of couples with children. The typical home holds 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Stowport — higher than 50% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Most homes in Stowport house two people, making up 39.6% of the total. Only 23.1% of residents live alone, which is well below the Tasmania figure of 29%.
23.1% ▼ -2.6%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Stowport, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family units are common here, with 56.1% of households being couples with children. Only 10.3% of families are one-parent households, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
10.3% ▲ +40.2%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Stowport, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; 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 Stowport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60645/stowport/topic/family-households