2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kettering · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kettering
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all households in Kettering (L) are couples with children, making it a family-heavy area. The typical home holds 2.3 people, which is about the same as the Tasmanian figure. This community has seen a notable shift away from single-person living and one-parent households over the last decade.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Kettering — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly half of all homes are shared by two people, while 23.1% of residents live alone. This last figure is well below the Tasmanian average and has fallen by 9.8 percentage points since 2011.
23.1% ▼ -29.7%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Kettering, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up just 7.0% of the total, which is well below both the state and national figures. This is a significant drop from 2011, when this group accounted for 20.1% of families.
7.0% ▼ -65.2%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Kettering splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (47%) and Couples without children (45%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Kettering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622015/kettering/topic/family-households