2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sheffield · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Sheffield
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than four out of ten families in Sheffield are couples without children. The area has a notable number of single-person households, and the typical home now holds fewer people than it did a decade ago.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Sheffield — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 35% of residents in Sheffield live alone, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.1 people, which is a little below the Tasmanian and Australian figures.
35.0% ▲ +16.3%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sheffield splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 42.7%, followed closely by couples with children at 40.2%. One-parent families account for 15.6% of the total, which is about the same as the state average.
15.6% ▼ -14.3%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Sheffield splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (43%) and Couples with children (40%), with One-parent families at 16%.
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 Sheffield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615022/sheffield/topic/family-households