2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Longreach · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Longreach
How families and households are made up across the area.
A much higher share of people live alone in Longreach compared to most similar areas. This trend has grown since 2011, meaning homes across the town are now smaller and less crowded than the national average.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 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 Longreach — lower than 71% of areas.
| Longreach | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4730, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Around 32.7% of households are people living alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home in Longreach has 2.3 people, a little below the 2.5 seen across Australia.
32.7% ▲ +14.3%
Higher than 83% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Longreach splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
More than half of families here are couples with children. One-parent families make up 14.2% of the total, which is about the same as the 14.1% recorded across Australia.
14.2% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 59% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Longreach, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Longreach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/315031412/longreach/topic/family-households