2.0 ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Currie · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Currie
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Currie than in most similar areas, with 41.6% of households consisting of just one person. This trend has grown since 2011, contributing to a typical home size that is now much smaller than the national figure.
2.0
▼ -16.7%
- 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 Currie — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
People per home have fallen to 2.0, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of single-person households, which rose 12 points since 2011 to reach 41.6%.
41.6% ▲ +40.0%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Currie splits fairly evenly between 1 person (42%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 43.2%, followed closely by couples with children at 41.7%. One-parent families account for 13.1%, which is a little below the Tasmanian figure of 15.9%.
13.1% ▼ -5.2%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Currie splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (44%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 Currie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621009/currie/topic/family-households