2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 93% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Surfers Paradise · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Surfers Paradise
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of people in Surfers Paradise live alone, which is one of the highest proportions for any similar area. This means the typical home here is smaller than the national average, with only 2.1 people per dwelling.
2.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Surfers Paradise — lower than 93% of areas.
| Surfers Paradise | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 33.6% of residents live by themselves, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen since 2011. These single-person homes help explain why the area has one of the lowest typical household sizes at this level.
33.6% ▲ +4.4%
Higher than 90% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Surfers Paradise, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (34%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 43.7% of families, while couples without children account for 42.1%. One-parent families represent 12.8% of the total, which is a little below the Queensland figure.
12.8% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 63% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Surfers Paradise splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (42%), with One-parent families at 13%.
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 Surfers Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/30910/surfers-paradise/topic/family-households