1.7 ▼ -10.5%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newstead - Bowen Hills · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Newstead - Bowen Hills
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-three point six percent of people in Newstead - Bowen Hills live alone, one of the highest rates for this type of area. This makes the local housing landscape very different from the rest of the state, with far fewer children and larger families than usual.
1.7
▼ -10.5%
- 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 Newstead - Bowen Hills — lower than 99% of areas.
| Newstead - Bowen Hills | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 4006, QLD | 1.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Small households are the norm here, with a typical home holding only 1.7 people. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, and the number of people living alone has risen since 2011.
43.6% ▲ +20.1%
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Newstead - Bowen Hills splits fairly evenly between 2 people (44%) and 1 person (44%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 63.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 8.0%, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
8.0% ▼ -2.2%
Lower than 94% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Newstead - Bowen Hills, Couples without children is the majority at 63%; Couples with children is next at 26%.
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 Newstead - Bowen Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/305031128/newstead-bowen-hills/topic/family-households