2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cooktown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cooktown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of homes in Cooktown are occupied by people living alone, which is well above the national figure. This high number of single-person households means the area has a smaller typical home size than most other parts of the country.
2.3
→ 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 Cooktown — lower than 71% of areas.
| Cooktown | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4895, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 34% of households, a figure well above the Queensland average of 24.7%. Consequently, the typical home in Cooktown holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
34.0% ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cooktown splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (34%), with 4 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.2% of the total, which is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Nearly half of all families in the area are couples with children, while 31.2% are couples without children.
18.2% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cooktown, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (31%) and One-parent families (18%).
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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30675/cooktown/topic/family-households