1.9 ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swansea · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Swansea
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all households in Swansea (L) consist of just two people, making it a place of small living arrangements. It is a community where small homes and single-person households are much more common than in the rest of the state.
1.9
▼ -20.8%
- 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 Swansea — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Just 1.9 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 34.7% of people live alone, a figure that has risen since 2011 and is now well above the Tasmanian average.
34.7% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Swansea, 2 people is the majority at 51%; 1 person is next at 34%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 63.4%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.0% of the total, which is well below both the state and national figures.
11.0% ▼ -17.8%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Swansea, Couples without children is the majority at 63%; Couples with children is next at 26%.
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 Swansea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621030/swansea/topic/family-households