1.9 ▼ -24.0%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ross · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Ross
How families and households are made up across the area.
A shift toward smaller living arrangements defines Ross (L), where the number of people living alone has jumped 22 percentage points since 2011. This trend has left the area with far fewer people per home than the national figure. Today, about 34.5% of households consist of just one person.
1.9
▼ -24.0%
- 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 Ross — lower than 93% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Ross (L) is small, with only 1.9 people per dwelling—well below the Tasmanian figure of 2.4. Over half of all households (50.3%) house two people, while those living alone are much more common here than across Australia.
34.5% ▲ +184.5%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ross, 2 people is the majority at 52%; 1 person is next at 35%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 59.9%. One-parent families are more common here than in most areas, accounting for 17.4% of families, which is well above the national figure.
17.4% ▲ +93.4%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ross, Couples without children is the majority at 60%; Couples with children is next at 22%.
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 Ross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622021/ross/topic/family-households