1.9 → 0.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cairns City · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cairns City
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Cairns City than in most similar areas, with 39.1% of households consisting of just one person. This high number of single-person homes means the area has a much lower typical household size than the rest of the state.
1.9
→ 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 Cairns City — lower than 89% of areas.
| Cairns City | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 4870, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With only 1.9 people per home, the typical household is well below the Queensland and national figure of 2.5. Small homes are the norm here, as 43.2% of households have two people and 39.1% have just one.
39.1% ▼ -1.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.8%
- 2016: 38.8%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cairns City splits fairly evenly between 2 people (43%) and 1 person (39%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 59.6%. One-parent families account for 9.4% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.4% ▼ -3.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cairns City, Couples without children is the majority at 59%; Couples with children is next at 30%.
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 Cairns City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30478/cairns-city/topic/family-households