1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Airlie Beach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Airlie Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty per cent of households in Airlie Beach consist of just one person, which is far higher than the national figure. This makes it a place of very small households, with a typical home holding only 1.8 people.
1.8
▼ -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 Airlie Beach — lower than 91% of areas.
| Airlie Beach | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 4802, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Airlie Beach has some of the lowest numbers of people per home in the region. This is reflected in the high proportion of people living alone, at 40.3%, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%.
40.3% ▲ +7.6%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Airlie Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 people (45%) and 1 person (41%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the biggest group of families here at 59.8%. The area also has far fewer one-parent families than the national average, accounting for only 8.5% of the total.
8.5% ▲ +7.6%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Airlie Beach, Couples without children is the majority at 60%; Couples with children is next at 31%.
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 Airlie Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30016/airlie-beach/topic/family-households