3.7 ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.1
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 3.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kowanyama · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Kowanyama
How families and households are made up across the area.
Crowded homes are a common part of daily life in Kowanyama, where typical households are much larger than in the rest of the country. With 3.7 people per home, the area has some of the highest dwelling occupancy rates in the region.
3.7
▼ -9.8%
- 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 Kowanyama — higher than 99% of areas.
| Kowanyama | 3.7 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are often full, with 24.3% of households containing six or more people. This helps explain why only 16.2% of residents live alone, a figure well below the national rate of 25.6%.
16.2% ▲ +7.3%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kowanyama splits fairly evenly between 6 or more (24%) and 2 people (22%), with 1 person at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 37.7% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 5.8 points since 2011, while couples with children remain the most common family type at 44.6%.
37.7% ▲ +18.1%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kowanyama, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by One-parent families (38%) and Couples without children (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 Kowanyama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA34420/kowanyama/topic/family-households