3.1 ▼ -20.5%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.9
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hope Vale · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Hope Vale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more one-parent families live in Hope Vale than in other parts of the state. This is a place where homes are often crowded, with the typical household holding 3.1 people. While this is still a little above the national figure, it is a drop from the 3.9 people per home seen in 2011.
3.1
▼ -20.5%
- 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 Hope Vale — higher than 91% of areas.
| Hope Vale | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are among the most crowded at this level, though 26% of people now live alone. This is a big jump from 2011, when only 12.8% lived by themselves.
26.0% ▲ +103.4%
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hope Vale splits fairly evenly between 1 person (26%) and 2 people (23%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 36.2% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by nearly 10 percentage points since 2011.
36.2% ▲ +37.2%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hope Vale, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by One-parent families (36%) and Couples without children (12%).
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 Hope Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33830/hope-vale/topic/family-households