1.9 ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brisbane Inner · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Brisbane Inner
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty per cent of people in Brisbane Inner live alone, making it an area where single-person households are far more common than in most other parts of the country. This trend has grown since 2011, contributing to a typical home size that is much smaller than the national figure.
1.9
▼ -5.0%
- 1.0: 1 area
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 4 areas
- 2.0: 3 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 17 areas
- 2.3: 60 areas
- 2.4: 55 areas
- 2.5: 57 areas
- 2.6: 43 areas
- 2.7: 19 areas
- 2.8: 27 areas
- 2.9: 16 areas
- 3.0: 13 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 1 area
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 1 area
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
All sub-region (sa3) areas, 2021. The marker is Brisbane Inner — lower than 99% of areas.
| Brisbane Inner | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| Greater Brisbane | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With only 1.9 people per home, household sizes here are among the lowest for similar areas and well below the Queensland average of 2.5. This is driven by the 40.1% of residents living alone, a figure that has risen since 2011.
40.1% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 37.6%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 40.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Brisbane Inner splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Almost half of all families are couples without children, at 48.2%. In contrast, one-parent families make up 10.6% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1% and has barely changed over the last decade.
10.6% ▲ +3.0%
Lower than 85% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brisbane Inner, the largest group is Couples without children at 48%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Brisbane Inner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/30501/brisbane-inner/topic/family-households