1.9 ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Amby · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Amby
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Amby are occupied by just one person, making it an area where living alone is far more common than elsewhere. This creates a unique social landscape where small household sizes are the norm, with a typical home holding only 1.9 people.
1.9
▼ -17.4%
- 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 Amby — lower than 89% of areas.
| Amby | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 4462, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 48% of residents live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home in Amby holds only 1.9 people, which is well below the 2.5 seen across Australia.
48.0% ▲ +56.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 48.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Amby, the largest group is 1 person at 46%, followed by 2 people (35%) and 5 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
There are no one-parent families here, which is far below the Queensland figure of 15.4%. Most families are couples, with 58.1% having children and 58.1% without.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Amby splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (50%) and Couples without children (50%).
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 Amby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30055/amby/topic/family-households