2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Barcoo · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Barcoo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Barcoo than in most similar areas. This trend has grown since 2011, though the typical home still houses about 2.3 people. While many residents live solo, nearly half of all families here are couples with children.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Barcoo — lower than 71% of areas.
| Barcoo | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.8% of households consist of one person, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This number rose by 4.2 percentage points since 2011, while the typical home size has remained steady at 2.3 people.
34.8% ▲ +13.9%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Barcoo splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (34%), with 4 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 47.1% of families in the area. One-parent families account for 12.8%, a figure that is a little below the national average and has risen by 2.8 percentage points since 2011.
12.8% ▲ +28.5%
Lower than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Barcoo, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Barcoo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA30450/barcoo/topic/family-households