1.8 ▼ -21.7%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.3
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tomahawk · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tomahawk
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Tomahawk than in other parts of the state, with 40% of households consisting of just one person. This creates a stark contrast to the Tasmanian average and means the area has a much smaller typical household size than the national figure.
1.8
▼ -21.7%
- 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 Tomahawk — lower than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are small, with only 1.8 people per household, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. While 40% of residents live alone, 36% live as a pair.
40.0% ▲ +44.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 66.7%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tomahawk splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 55.6%. One-parent families are much more common here than in most areas, representing 16.7% of the total.
16.7% ▲ +40.6%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tomahawk, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 30%.
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 Tomahawk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60683/tomahawk/topic/family-households