2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Penguin · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Penguin
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Penguin than in the typical Australian home. This shift is part of a wider trend toward smaller households, with the number of people per home falling to 2.2 since 2011.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Penguin — lower than 64% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 32.2% of people live alone, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 29.0%. This explains why the typical home in Penguin holds fewer people than most other areas.
32.2% ▲ +27.5%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 32.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Penguin, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly half of all families at 49.2%. One-parent families account for 15.1%, a figure that is about the same as the national average but has risen since 2011.
15.1% ▲ +30.5%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Penguin, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (15%).
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 Penguin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615016/penguin/topic/family-households