2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wattle Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wattle Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live in each home in Wattle Hill than in most similar areas. The area has a high number of single-parent families, with 20.1% of families falling into this category.
2.6
▼ -3.7%
- 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 Wattle Hill — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 2.6 people, which is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. About 27.3% of households are people living alone, which is a little above the national figure.
27.3% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wattle Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 1 person (27%), with 4 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 20.1% of the total, a figure well above both the state and national averages. More than half of families are couples with children, at 50.6%.
20.1% ▲ +62.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wattle Hill, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (28%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Wattle Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60723/wattle-hill/topic/family-households