2.3 ▲ +15.0%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Smithton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Smithton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Living alone is much more common in Smithton than in most other areas. While the typical home holds 2.3 people, a significant portion of the community lives independently. This makes for a diverse mix of household types across the town.
2.3
▲ +15.0%
- 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 Smithton — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 33.2% of people live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. While this is higher than most areas, the proportion of single-person homes has actually fallen by 7.4 points since 2011.
33.2% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Smithton splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Almost half of all families here are couples with children, at 48.4%. One-parent families make up 15.7% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the Tasmania average and has fallen 7.3 points since 2011.
15.7% ▼ -31.7%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Smithton, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (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 Smithton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615023/smithton/topic/family-households