2.4 ▲ +4.3%
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Quilpie · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Quilpie
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of people in Quilpie live alone, a figure that is well above the national average. This trend has grown since 2011, creating a residential landscape where single-person households are very common. While families remain a core part of the area, one-parent homes have become much rarer over the last decade.
2.4
▲ +4.3%
- 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 Quilpie — lower than 57% of areas.
| Quilpie | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 35.5% of households are people living alone, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. The typical home holds 2.4 people, a number that has edged up slightly since 2011 and remains about the same as the national average.
35.5% ▲ +11.7%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Quilpie, the largest group is 1 person at 35%, followed by 2 people (30%) and 4 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 8.0% of the total, which is well below the Australian average and represents a fall of 8.4 points since 2011. Most families are couples, with 59.5% having children and 34.3% without.
8.0% ▼ -51.2%
Lower than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Quilpie, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Quilpie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36150/quilpie/topic/family-households