2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Turners Marsh · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Turners Marsh
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger homes with more people are the norm in Turners Marsh, where just 9.6% of households consist of one person. This is a stark contrast to the rest of the state, making it a place where few people live alone and most homes are shared by families.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Turners Marsh — higher than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 2.8 people, which is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. This larger household size is reflected in the fact that nearly 40% of homes have two people, while only 9.6% are single-person households—a rate far below the Australian average.
9.6% ▼ -45.9%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Turners Marsh, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 3 people (23%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families here. One-parent families account for 18.5% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
18.5% ▲ +23.2%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Turners Marsh, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without 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 Turners Marsh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60700/turners-marsh/topic/family-households