2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sisters Beach · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Sisters Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Sisters Beach than in most similar areas. This trend has grown since 2011, and about 33% of households now consist of just one person. While the typical home size is about the same as across Tasmania, a significant portion of the population lives in small, two-person households.
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 Sisters Beach — lower than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
One-person households make up 33% of the area, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Homes here hold slightly fewer people than the Australian typical of 2.5, and this number has edged down since 2011.
33.0% ▲ +27.3%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Sisters Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52% of families in the area. One-parent families account for 14.1%, a figure that is about the same as the national average but has risen by 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
14.1% ▲ +17.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sisters Beach, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Sisters Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622022/sisters-beach/topic/family-households