1.8 ▼ -30.8%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Low Head · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Low Head
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Low Head are occupied by just one person. This shift is a major change for the area, where the typical number of people per home has dropped from 2.6 in 2011 to 1.8 today.
1.8
▼ -30.8%
- 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 Low Head — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households now make up 45.4% of the area, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This has led to a much smaller typical household size compared to both Tasmania and Australia.
45.4% ▲ +147.0%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 45.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Low Head, the largest group is 1 person at 45%, followed by 2 people (38%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 57.8%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 8.7%, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 15.9%.
8.7% ▼ -53.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Low Head, Couples without children is the majority at 58%; Couples with children is next at 33%.
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 Low Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621017/low-head/topic/family-households