2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Labrador · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Labrador
How families and households are made up across the area.
Thirty-eight per cent of people live alone in Labrador, a figure far above the national average. This makes it an area with very small households, where a typical home holds just two people. This trend has grown over the last decade as the number of single-person homes rose.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Labrador — lower than 93% of areas.
| Labrador | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4215, QLD | 2.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 38.2% of people living alone, Labrador has one of the highest rates of single-person households in the region. This helps explain why the typical home has only 2.0 people, which is well below the Australian figure of 2.5.
38.2% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Labrador splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 22.8% of the local total, a rate well above the national figure. Meanwhile, couples with children represent 39.7% of families, and couples without children account for 35.1%.
22.8% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 92% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Labrador splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (40%) and Couples without children (35%), with One-parent families at 23%.
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 Labrador [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/309031238/labrador/topic/family-households