2.6 ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Araluen · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Araluen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people live alone in Araluen than in most other similar areas, which makes for a landscape dominated by multi-person homes. About half of all families here are couples raising children, and the typical home holds 2.6 people.
2.6
▲ +4.0%
- 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 Araluen — higher than 57% of areas.
| Araluen | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 4570, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 17.8% of people live by themselves, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes here are slightly larger than usual, with 46.1% of households consisting of two people.
17.8% ▲ +5.8%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Araluen, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (18%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 49.6% of families in the area. While one-parent families are more common here than in most similar areas, they represent 13.4% of the total, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
13.4% ▲ +13.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Araluen, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (36%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Araluen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30071/araluen/topic/family-households