2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wivenhoe · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wivenhoe
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more one-parent families live in Wivenhoe than in the rest of Tasmania or Australia. While the typical home holds about 2.4 people, the family structures here differ sharply from state and national norms. This creates a distinct community profile where single-parent households are very common.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 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 Wivenhoe — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 27.2% of people here live alone, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the national figure. Two-person households are the most common, making up 42% of all homes.
27.2% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wivenhoe, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 36.3% of the total, a figure that is far above both the Tasmanian and Australian averages. Couples with children are the next largest group at 37.5%.
36.3% ▲ +84.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 36.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Wivenhoe splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (36%), with Couples without children at 26%.
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 Wivenhoe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60762/wivenhoe/topic/family-households