2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Clark (Elwick) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Clark (Elwick)
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Clark (Elwick) than in most similar areas, with 31.7% of households consisting of just one person. This creates a living pattern where single-person homes are as common as two-person homes, contributing to a typical household size of 2.4 people.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Clark (Elwick) — lower than 71% of areas.
| Clark (Elwick) | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Greater Hobart | 2.4 |
| Tasmania | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, a figure that has risen 6.9 percentage points since 2011 to reach 31.7%. This is well above the national figure of 25.6%, which helps explain why the typical number of people per home has edged down to 2.4.
31.7% ▲ +27.7%
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.9%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 31.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Clark (Elwick) splits fairly evenly between 1 person (32%) and 2 people (32%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.4% of the area, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. These households are much more common here than in most similar areas and have increased by 1.4 percentage points since 2011.
19.4% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Clark (Elwick), the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (29%) and One-parent families (19%).
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 Clark (Elwick) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60302/clark/topic/family-households