2.1 —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Upper Scamander · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Upper Scamander
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people live in each home in Upper Scamander than in most similar areas. This sparsely populated place is dominated by small households, with a typical size of 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
2.1
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- 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 Upper Scamander — lower than 81% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Most homes here house two people (65.4%), while only 15.4% of residents live alone. This share of single-person households is far below both the Tasmanian figure of 29% and the Australian figure of 25.6%.
15.4% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Upper Scamander, 2 people is the majority at 61%; 3 people is next at 25%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples are the norm here, as there are no one-parent families in the area. This is far below the 14.1% national figure and the 15.9% seen across Tasmania.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Upper Scamander, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 49%.
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 Upper Scamander [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60709/upper-scamander/topic/family-households