2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alloway · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Alloway
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people live alone in Alloway compared to the state or national average. This trend contributes to a slightly higher number of people per home than most areas, with the typical household containing 2.6 people.
2.6
▼ -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 Alloway — higher than 57% of areas.
| Alloway | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 4670, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 20.5% of residents live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. Two-person households are the most common at 35.1%, while 19.9% of homes house four people.
20.5% ▼ -11.5%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Alloway, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 4 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families at 53.7%. One-parent families account for 14.6%, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the national average.
14.6% ▲ +116.4%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alloway, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without 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 Alloway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30042/alloway/topic/family-households