1.8 ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.5
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Surveyors Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Surveyors Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all homes in Surveyors Bay are occupied by people living alone. This makes the area much smaller in terms of household size than the rest of Tasmania and Australia, with a typical home housing fewer than two people.
1.8
▼ -18.2%
- 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 Surveyors Bay — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
A striking 53.3% of people live alone, which is far above the Tasmanian figure of 29%. This helps explain why the typical home here has only 1.8 people, well below the national figure of 2.5.
53.3% ▲ +80.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 44.0%
- 2021: 53.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Surveyors Bay, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (39%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Among families, couples without children are the most common at 58.8%. One-parent families make up 14.7% of the total, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and about the same as the national average.
14.7% ▲ +43.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Surveyors Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Surveyors Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60657/surveyors-bay/topic/family-households