2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swan Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Swan Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people live alone in Swan Point than in most similar areas. This community is largely made up of couples, with 43.4% of families having children and the typical home holding 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Swan Point — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 20.7% of people live alone here, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 29.0%. Most households are small, with 48.8% consisting of two people.
20.7% ▲ +7.2%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Swan Point, the largest group is 2 people at 50%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 48.1%. One-parent families account for 10.2%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.2% ▲ +10.4%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Swan Point splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (43%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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 Swan Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60659/swan-point/topic/family-households