2.5 ▲ +8.7%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lyons (Derwent) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Lyons (Derwent)
How families and households are made up across the area.
One-parent families are among the highest for similar areas in Lyons (Derwent), making up 25.5% of all families. While the typical home size is about the same as the national figure, there has been a notable shift in family structures over the last decade.
2.5
▲ +8.7%
- 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 Lyons (Derwent) — lower than 57% of areas.
| Lyons (Derwent) | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Tas. | 2.3 |
| Tasmania | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 2.5 people live in each home, a figure that has moved up since 2011. While 27.4% of people live alone—which is higher than most areas—this is slightly below the Tasmanian figure.
27.4% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lyons (Derwent), the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 1 person (27%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families have risen sharply to 25.5% since 2011, a rate far above the national figure. Couples with children are the most common family type at 47.8%, followed by couples without children at 25.4%.
25.5% ▲ +103.4%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 25.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lyons (Derwent), the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by One-parent families (25%) and Couples without children (25%).
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 Lyons (Derwent) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60501/lyons/topic/family-households