2.0 ▼ -25.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Chillagoe · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Chillagoe
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 44% of all households in Chillagoe are made up of people living alone. This makes the area feel much smaller in scale than typical towns, with a very low number of people sharing each home.
2.0
▼ -25.9%
- 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 Chillagoe — lower than 86% of areas.
| Chillagoe | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4871, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Chillagoe holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 43.8% of people live alone, a rate far above the 25.6% seen across Australia.
43.8% ▲ +28.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 51.2%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Chillagoe, the largest group is 1 person at 44%, followed by 2 people (35%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 6.1% of the total, which is well below the 14.1% national average. Most families here are couples, with 46.5% having children and 41.2% without.
6.1% ▼ -52.9%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Chillagoe, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (44%) and One-parent families (7%).
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 Chillagoe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30601/chillagoe/topic/family-households