1.7 ▼ -15.0%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.8
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cow Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Cow Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half the population now lives alone in Cow Bay, marking a shift toward much smaller households. This sparsely populated area sees very few large homes, with the typical household holding just 1.7 people.
1.7
▼ -15.0%
- 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 Cow Bay — lower than 94% of areas.
| Cow Bay | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 4873, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A striking 54% of people live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why Cow Bay has among the lowest number of people per home at 1.7, well below the Queensland figure of 2.5.
54.0% ▲ +37.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 54.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cow Bay, 1 person is the majority at 51%; 2 people is next at 32%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 22.5% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples without children are the most common family type here, accounting for 44.1% of families.
22.5% ▲ +39.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cow Bay, the largest group is Couples without children at 43%, followed by Couples with children (31%) and One-parent families (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 Cow Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30735/cow-bay/topic/family-households