2.5 → 0.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alpha · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Alpha
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Alpha are couples with children, making them the most common household type. This community has a high number of people living alone, though the typical home still holds 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.5
→ 0.0%
- 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 Alpha — higher than 50% of areas.
| Alpha | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 4724, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 30% of households, which is well above the figures for both Queensland and Australia. Two-person homes are the most common, accounting for 34% of the total.
30.0% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Alpha splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (30%), with 4 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children form 55.7% of families, while those without children make up 32.5%. One-parent families account for 11.1%, a figure that is well below the state and national averages.
11.1% ▲ +127.5%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alpha, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Alpha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30045/alpha/topic/family-households