2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Brooweena · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Brooweena
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes define daily life in Brooweena, where only 2.0 people live in the typical home. This is well below the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community with a high number of people living on their own.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Brooweena — lower than 86% of areas.
| Brooweena | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4620, QLD | 2.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
More than a third of residents (36.4%) live alone, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This helps explain why homes here are much smaller than in most other areas.
36.4% ▲ +30.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 44.2%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Brooweena splits fairly evenly between 1 person (46%) and 2 people (46%), with 3 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest family group at 42.9%, though one-parent families are much more common here (15.9%) than in most similar areas.
15.9% ▲ +136.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Brooweena splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 16%.
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 Brooweena [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30392/brooweena/topic/family-households