1.7 ▼ -29.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
White Beach · Urban Centre
Family & Households in White Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in White Beach (L), where just 1.7 people live in the typical home. This is well below the national figure of 2.5 and reflects a significant shift toward smaller living arrangements over the last decade.
1.7
▼ -29.2%
- 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 White Beach — lower than 99% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 42.9% of households consisting of one person. This is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia and has risen sharply by 23 percentage points since 2011.
42.9% ▲ +114.3%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →White Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 people (47%) and 1 person (43%), with 3 people at 7%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.1% of the area, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 15.9%. Meanwhile, couples without children are the most common family type at 63.6%.
19.1% ▲ +43.5%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In White Beach, Couples without children is the majority at 62%; Couples with children is next at 19%.
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 White Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622027/white-beach/topic/family-households