2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hamilton · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Hamilton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Hamilton than in the rest of the state, with 41.1% of households consisting of just one person. This high number of single-person homes means the area has a much lower typical household size than the national average.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Hamilton — lower than 93% of areas.
| Hamilton | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4007, QLD | 2.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes here have only 2.0 people, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figure of 2.5. This trend has continued since 2011, as the share of people living alone rose 8.8 percentage points to reach 41.1%.
41.1% ▲ +27.1%
Higher than 97% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 41.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hamilton splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 10.0% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. The family landscape is split almost evenly between couples with children (44.5%) and those without (43.2%).
10.0% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 80% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Hamilton splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 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 Hamilton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/305031124/hamilton/topic/family-households