2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Surges Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Surges Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
About half of all households in Surges Bay consist of two people. This small community has very few people living alone and typically larger homes than those found across Tasmania.
2.6
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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 Surges Bay — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 2.6 people per home, households here are slightly larger than the state figure of 2.4. Only 6.6% of residents live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%.
6.6% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Surges Bay, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 47.5% of families, while couples without children account for 44.6%. One-parent families represent 9.4%, a figure well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
9.4% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Surges Bay splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (46%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Surges Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60655/surges-bay/topic/family-households