2.8 ▼ -6.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Travellers Rest · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Travellers Rest
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger-than-usual households define daily life in Travellers Rest, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This is a community where very few people live alone and family life is the primary domestic experience.
2.8
▼ -6.7%
- 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 Travellers Rest — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than most, with 2.8 people per household compared to 2.4 in Tasmania. Only 12.5% of people live alone, a figure far below both the state and national averages.
12.5% ▲ +143.8%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Travellers Rest, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 3 people (20%) and 4 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples, with 62.8% of families having children. This helps explain why one-parent families are very rare here, making up just 3.6% of the total, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
3.6% ▼ -58.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Travellers Rest, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; 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 Travellers Rest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60687/travellers-rest/topic/family-households