2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Waratah · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Waratah
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living in each home in Waratah (L) than they were in 2011. The typical household now holds 2.1 people, which is a little below the Tasmanian and national figures. This shift is partly due to a high number of people living alone, though this has dropped slightly over the last decade.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Waratah — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Nearly half of all households have just two people, while 32.4% are single-person homes. This proportion of people living alone is well above both the state and national figures, though it has fallen 4.5 points since 2011.
32.4% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Waratah, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 43.3%, followed by couples with children at 38.9%. One-parent families make up 14.0% of the total, which is about the same as the national figure and has barely changed since 2011.
14.0% ▼ -3.1%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Waratah splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (43%) and Couples with children (39%), with One-parent families at 14%.
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 Waratah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622026/waratah/topic/family-households