3.0 → 0.0%
Higher than 93% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Browns Plains · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Browns Plains
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 60% of families in Browns Plains are couples with children, making it an area dominated by larger households. Most homes here hold more people than the national average, a trend that has remained steady for a decade.
3.0
→ 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 Browns Plains — higher than 93% of areas.
| Browns Plains | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Greater Brisbane | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Browns Plains typically hold 3.0 people, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5. Very few people live alone here compared to most areas, though the share of single-person households rose to 18.1% since 2011.
18.1% ▲ +23.7%
Lower than 89% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Browns Plains, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 3 people (18%) and 1 person (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.6% of the total, a figure that is well above the national average of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 2.0 percentage points over the last ten years.
19.6% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 91% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Browns Plains, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Browns Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31103/browns-plains/topic/family-households