2.4 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Midway Point · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Midway Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Midway Point are couples with children. This is a family-focused area where households are generally larger than in most other similar places, though the typical home size remains consistent with both Tasmania and Australia.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 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 Midway Point — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 2.4 people, which is higher than most areas. While about 26.3% of residents live alone, this figure has fallen by 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
26.3% ▼ -11.1%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Midway Point, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.4% of the local mix, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen by 4 percentage points over the last decade.
17.4% ▲ +30.3%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Midway Point, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Midway Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615015/midway-point/topic/family-households