2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Scamander · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Scamander
How families and households are made up across the area.
A much lower number of people share a home in Scamander compared to the national figure. This small community is largely made up of small households, with nearly 35% of homes being occupied by just one person.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Scamander — lower than 86% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has only 2.0 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5. This trend is driven by a high rate of people living alone, sitting at 34.9% and well above both the state and national averages.
34.9% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Scamander, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 45% of families, while those without children account for 44.1%. One-parent families are less common here than in most areas, making up 11.9% of the total, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
11.9% ▼ -40.3%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Scamander splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Scamander [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621024/scamander/topic/family-households