2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
4804, QLD · Postcode
Family & Households in 4804, QLD
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in postcode 4804 than in most similar areas. This trend has grown over the last decade, meaning the typical home here is smaller than those across the state and country.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 1.0: 3 areas
- 1.1: 1 area
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 1 area
- 1.4: 1 area
- 1.5: 4 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 16 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 61 areas
- 2.0: 101 areas
- 2.1: 182 areas
- 2.2: 257 areas
- 2.3: 365 areas
- 2.4: 338 areas
- 2.5: 338 areas
- 2.6: 233 areas
- 2.7: 223 areas
- 2.8: 157 areas
- 2.9: 127 areas
- 3.0: 75 areas
- 3.1: 49 areas
- 3.2: 40 areas
- 3.3: 13 areas
- 3.4: 10 areas
- 3.5: 6 areas
- 3.6: 3 areas
- 3.7: 1 area
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 0 areas
- 4.2: 1 area
All postcode areas, 2021. The marker is 4804, QLD — lower than 71% of areas.
| 4804, QLD | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Whitsunday | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 33.9% of people live alone, a figure that is well above the Queensland and national averages. This helps explain why the typical home has only 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure.
33.9% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 82% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →4804, QLD splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly half of all families at 49.7%. Meanwhile, one-parent families now account for 15.0% of the total, a figure that has risen by 4.9 percentage points since 2011.
15.0% ▲ +47.9%
Higher than 72% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In 4804, QLD, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (15%).
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 4804, QLD [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA4804/4804-qld/topic/family-households