2.7 ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Carters Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Carters Ridge
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people live alone in Carters Ridge than in most similar areas. This makes the community feel more family-oriented, with typical homes holding about 2.7 people. It is an area where shared households are the norm rather than the exception.
2.7
▼ -3.6%
- 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 Carters Ridge — higher than 71% of areas.
| Carters Ridge | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 4563, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 16.7% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why 41.4% of homes hold two people and 18.5% hold four.
16.7% ▲ +1.5%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Carters Ridge, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 4 people (18%) and 1 person (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
More than half of all families are couples with children. One-parent families make up 11.3%, a figure that is well below the Queensland average of 15.4%.
11.3% ▼ -42.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Carters Ridge, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Carters Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30555/carters-ridge/topic/family-households