1.8 ▼ -10.0%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brisbane City · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brisbane City
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 43% of homes in Brisbane City are occupied by just one person. This is a very small-household area where the typical home holds only 1.8 people, far fewer than the national figure of 2.5.
1.8
▼ -10.0%
- 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 Brisbane City — lower than 91% of areas.
| Brisbane City | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 4000, QLD | 1.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 42.7% of households consisting of one person, a figure far above the Queensland average of 24.7%. This helps explain why the number of people per home is among the lowest for similar areas.
42.7% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 42.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Brisbane City splits fairly evenly between 1 person (43%) and 2 people (41%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 59.4%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.5% of the total, which is well below both the Queensland and Australian figures.
9.5% ▲ +29.2%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Brisbane City, Couples without children is the majority at 59%; Couples with children is next at 28%.
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 Brisbane City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30379/brisbane-city/topic/family-households