2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Flinders · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Flinders
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Flinders than a decade ago, with single-person households now making up 34.5% of the total. This shift toward smaller living arrangements means the area now has a higher proportion of solo residents than most other similar regions.
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 Flinders — lower than 71% of areas.
| Flinders | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A typical home in Flinders holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 34.5% of households are people living alone, a figure that is well above the Queensland average and has risen by 6.4 points since 2011.
34.5% ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Flinders splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (35%), with 4 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families here are couples with children, while 35.4% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 13.3% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the national average but has rose 3.7 points since 2011.
13.3% ▲ +37.8%
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Flinders, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Flinders [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33200/flinders/topic/family-households