2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Daintree · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Daintree
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Daintree than in most similar areas, with 42.9% of households consisting of just one person. This makes the area's typical home smaller than the state and national figures, which usually see about 2.5 people per dwelling.
2.2
→ 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 Daintree — lower than 76% of areas.
| Daintree | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4873, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here, making up 42.9% of all households. This is far above the national figure of 25.6% and helps explain why the typical home in Daintree has only 2.2 people, which is a little below the Australian average.
42.9% ▲ +22.1%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 49.0%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Daintree, the largest group is 1 person at 37%, followed by 2 people (20%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.4% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other common family types include couples without children at 39% and couples with children at 37.3%.
25.4% ▲ +168.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Daintree splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (38%) and Couples with children (37%), with One-parent families at 25%.
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 Daintree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30786/daintree/topic/family-households