2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hinchinbrook · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Hinchinbrook
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Hinchinbrook than in 2011, with 31.3% of households now consisting of a single person. This shift has contributed to a decline in the typical household size, which has fallen to 2.2 people per home over the last decade.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Hinchinbrook — lower than 86% of areas.
| Hinchinbrook | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Hinchinbrook has far more people living alone than the national figure of 25.6%, and the number of single-person homes has risen since 2011. Consequently, the typical home holds 2.2 people, which is a little below the Queensland average of 2.5.
31.3% ▲ +15.8%
Higher than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Hinchinbrook, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 44.9% of families here, while 40.6% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 13.7% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the own national average and has risen since 2011.
13.7% ▲ +26.6%
Higher than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Hinchinbrook splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (41%), 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 Hinchinbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33800/hinchinbrook/topic/family-households