2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Carpentaria · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Carpentaria
How families and households are made up across the area.
A sharp rise in single-parent homes is the biggest change in Carpentaria since 2011. While the typical home now holds 2.5 people, the area has a very high number of people living alone and families with only one parent.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Carpentaria — higher than 71% of areas.
| Carpentaria | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31% of people here live alone, which is well above the Queensland and national figures. This is a common arrangement in the area, as 31.5% of all households consist of two people.
31.0% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Carpentaria splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families now make up 28.7% of the total, a figure that rose by 14 percentage points since 2011. This is far above the national figure of 14.1% and among the highest for similar areas.
28.7% ▲ +90.0%
Higher than 94% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Carpentaria, the largest group is Couples with children at 42%, followed by One-parent families (29%) and Couples without children (27%).
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 Carpentaria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA32250/carpentaria/topic/family-households