2.6 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Buaraba · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Buaraba
How families and households are made up across the area.
Just 14% of people live alone in Buaraba, a figure far below the national average. This means most residents live in larger groups, with a typical home holding 2.6 people. This is slightly higher than the usual count for Queensland and Australia.
2.6
—
- 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 Buaraba — higher than 57% of areas.
| Buaraba | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 4311, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than most areas, with 54.4% of households holding two people and 26.3% holding four. This helps explain why the number of people living alone is so much lower than the Queensland figure of 24.7%.
14.0% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Buaraba, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 4 people (24%) and 1 person (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families here, with 48.5% without children and 46.9% with children. One-parent families make up only 4.6% of the total, which is far below the 15.4% seen across Queensland.
4.6% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Buaraba splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (48%) and Couples with children (47%), with One-parent families at 5%.
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 Buaraba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30400/buaraba/topic/family-households