2.0 ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Toowoon Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Toowoon Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households have become more common in Toowoon Bay, where 38% of homes are now occupied by just one person. This shift has left the area with a much smaller typical household size than the rest of the country.
2.0
▲ +5.3%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Toowoon Bay — lower than 86% of areas.
| Toowoon Bay | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 2261, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home here, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is consistent with 37.7% of residents living alone, a rate far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
37.7% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.5%
- 2016: 44.4%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Toowoon Bay, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 1 person (37%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 18.3% of the community, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Most families here are couples, with 46.2% having no children and 36.8% having children.
18.3% ▼ -18.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Toowoon Bay, the largest group is Couples without children at 46%, followed by Couples with children (36%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Toowoon Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13934/toowoon-bay/topic/family-households