2.9 → 0.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Calliope · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Calliope
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Calliope, where an average of 2.9 people live in each home. This is a little above the national figure, creating a community where few people live by themselves and most homes are shared.
2.9
→ 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 Calliope — higher than 81% of areas.
| Calliope | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 4680, QLD | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Few people live alone here, with only 16.6% of households being single-person homes, which is well below the Australian figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical household size of 2.9 people is much higher than most other areas.
16.6% ▲ +1.5%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Calliope, the largest group is 2 people at 32%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 63.1%. One-parent families account for 14.6% of the total, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the Queensland and national averages.
14.6% ▲ +75.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Calliope, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Calliope [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30491/calliope/topic/family-households