2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Longreach · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Longreach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of all homes in Longreach are occupied by people living alone, which is well above the national figure. This reflects a trend toward smaller households, with the typical number of people per home falling to 2.3 since 2011.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Longreach — lower than 71% of areas.
| Longreach | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32.7% of people live alone, a figure that has risen since 2011 and is much higher than in most other areas. This helps explain why the typical home here has 2.3 people, which is a little below the Queensland and national figures of 2.5.
32.7% ▲ +14.3%
Higher than 77% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Longreach splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52% of local families, while couples without children account for 32.6%. One-parent families make up 14.2% of the total, which is about the same as the national figure and has barely changed since 2011.
14.2% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Longreach, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Longreach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA34710/longreach/topic/family-households