2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bluewater · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Bluewater
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger homes are the norm in Bluewater, where the typical household has 2.8 people. This is much higher than most similar areas, with 60.5% of families being couples with children.
2.8
→ 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 Bluewater — higher than 76% of areas.
| Bluewater | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4818, QLD | 2.8 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than usual, and far fewer people live alone compared to the national figure. About 37% of households contain two people, while 7.5% have six or more residents.
17.8% ▲ +20.9%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Bluewater, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (18%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 60.5% of the total. One-parent families make up 11.2%, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
11.2% ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Bluewater, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Bluewater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30292/bluewater/topic/family-households