2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Richmond · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Richmond
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small and intimate living defines Richmond (L) (Tas.), where the typical home holds 2.3 people. This reflects a community where nearly half of all families are couples with children, though single-person households are also common.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Richmond — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Two-person homes are the most frequent here at 43.8%. While 26.6% of people live alone—a figure slightly above the national average—the overall number of people per home has fallen since 2011.
26.6% ▲ +2.8%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Richmond, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (27%) and 4 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is dominated by couples, with 88.4% being pairs with or without children. This helps explain why one-parent families make up only 10.6% of the total, which is well below the state and national figures.
10.6% ▲ +7.7%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Richmond, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Richmond [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621022/richmond/topic/family-households