2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sunshine Coast Hinterland · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Sunshine Coast Hinterland
How families and households are made up across the area.
Household patterns in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland have barely changed since 2011. This is a family-focused region where 54.1% of families are couples with children, and far fewer people live alone compared to the rest of the country.
2.6
→ 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 Sunshine Coast Hinterland — higher than 71% of areas.
| Sunshine Coast Hinterland | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes here hold 2.6 people, which is slightly higher than the national figure of 2.5. Only 19.4% of people live alone, a figure that is well below both the Queensland and Australian averages.
19.4% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 86% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sunshine Coast Hinterland, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (19%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up 54.1% of the local mix. One-parent families account for 12.6%, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
12.6% ▼ -3.6%
Lower than 65% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Sunshine Coast Hinterland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31606/sunshine-coast-hinterland/topic/family-households