2.8 ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Algester · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Algester
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger than typical households define Algester, where 2.8 people live per home. This is much higher than most similar areas, creating a community with far fewer people living alone than the national average.
2.8
▲ +3.7%
- 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 Algester — higher than 76% of areas.
| Algester | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4115, QLD | 3.0 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 18.2% of people live alone, which is well below the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why homes are more crowded, with 32.4% of households containing two people and 19.8% containing three.
18.2% ▲ +3.6%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Algester, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 3 people (20%) and 1 person (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 60.5% of families here. One-parent families are much more common than in most similar areas, accounting for 15.9% of the total.
15.9% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Algester, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Algester [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30032/algester/topic/family-households