3.7 ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.8
- 2016: 4.3
- 2021: 3.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Palm Island · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Palm Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living in each home on Palm Island than in 2011, though the typical household remains much larger than the national figure. This change comes alongside a rise in the number of people living alone, while family sizes remain high with a very high proportion of single-parent homes.
3.7
▼ -22.9%
- 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 Palm Island — higher than 99% of areas.
| Palm Island | 3.7 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are crowded, with 3.7 people per household, which is well above the Queensland figure of 2.5. Nearly a quarter of all homes hold six or more people, though the number of people living alone rose to 21.4% since 2011.
21.4% ▲ +86.6%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Palm Island splits fairly evenly between 6 or more (24%) and 1 person (21%), with 2 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 38.7% of the community, a figure far above the 14.1% national average. This proportion rose by 3.0 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children make up 46.6% of families.
38.7% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 38.4%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Palm Island, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by One-parent families (39%) and Couples without children (10%).
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 Palm Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA35790/palm-island/topic/family-households