2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Atherton · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Atherton
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Atherton are occupied by just one person. This high number of single-person homes means the area has a lower typical household size than the national figure.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Atherton — lower than 76% of areas.
| Atherton | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4883, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 34.5% of households, which is well above the 25.6% national figure. This helps explain why the typical home in Atherton has only 2.2 people, a little below the Australian average of 2.5.
34.5% ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Atherton splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families are much more common here than in most areas, making up 21.5% of families. This is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
21.5% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Atherton, the largest group is Couples with children at 43%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (21%).
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 Atherton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30096/atherton/topic/family-households