2.2 —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bancroft · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Bancroft
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Bancroft than in most similar areas, with 35.7% of households consisting of just one person. This trend makes the typical home smaller than the state and national figures, with an average of 2.2 people per household.
2.2
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- 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 Bancroft — lower than 76% of areas.
| Bancroft | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4630, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here, making up 35.7% of all households—a figure far above the 25.6% national average. This helps explain why the typical home is smaller, with 2.2 people per dwelling compared to 2.5 across Australia.
35.7% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bancroft splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (30%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
About half of families in Bancroft are couples with children, while 35.5% are couples without. Only 10.5% are one-parent families, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
10.5% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bancroft, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Bancroft [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30142/bancroft/topic/family-households