2.3 —
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Devonport · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Devonport
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly a third of all homes in Devonport are occupied by just one person. This high number of single-person households means more people here live alone compared to the state and national figures. Most homes house two or three people, creating a mix of small households and larger family units.
2.3
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- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Devonport — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes make up 32.6% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.3 people is a little below the Australian average of 2.5.
32.6% —
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Devonport splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.3% of the total, a figure that is much higher than most areas and well above the Tasmanian rate of 15.9%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 45.6%.
21.3% —
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Devonport, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (32%) and One-parent families (21%).
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 Devonport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL612002/devonport/topic/family-households