2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Biggera Waters · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Biggera Waters
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define Biggera Waters, where only 2.1 people live in the typical home. This is much lower than most areas, reflecting a community with a very high number of people living alone.
2.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Biggera Waters — lower than 81% of areas.
| Biggera Waters | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4216, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 33.9% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why households here are smaller than usual, with two-person homes being the most common at 39.7%.
33.9% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Biggera Waters, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (34%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.6% of the total, a figure well above the Queensland average of 15.4%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 40.9%, followed closely by couples without children at 37.5%.
19.6% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Biggera Waters splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (37%), with One-parent families at 20%.
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 Biggera Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30249/biggera-waters/topic/family-households