2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Barcaldine · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Barcaldine
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher rates of single-person living mark Barcaldine compared to similar areas. While nearly half of families here include children, the typical home is smaller than the national figure, with only 2.2 people per household.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Barcaldine — lower than 76% of areas.
| Barcaldine | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4725, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One in three residents lives alone, a figure well above the Queensland rate of 24.7%. This helps explain why the typical home here has only 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
34.1% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Barcaldine splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 49.1% of families, while 14.1% are one-parent families. This proportion of single-parent homes is higher than in most similar areas, though it is about the same as the national figure.
14.1% ▲ +23.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Barcaldine, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Barcaldine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30153/barcaldine/topic/family-households