2.7 ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Applethorpe · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Applethorpe
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up nearly half of all families in Applethorpe. This area has a strong family focus, with far fewer people living alone than the national figure. Most homes here are shared, and the typical household is slightly larger than the Queensland average.
2.7
▲ +3.8%
- 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 Applethorpe — higher than 71% of areas.
| Applethorpe | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 4378, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 15.3% of people live alone, which is far below the Australian figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why Applethorpe has a higher number of people per home (2.7) than most similar areas.
15.3% ▲ +24.5%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Applethorpe, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (15%) and 4 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Almost half of families are couples with children, while 39.2% are couples without. One-parent families make up 10.4%, a figure that is well below both the Queensland and national averages.
10.4% ▲ +10.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Applethorpe, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
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 Applethorpe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30069/applethorpe/topic/family-households