2.6 ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eerwah Vale · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Eerwah Vale are couples with children, making this the most common household type. The area is less likely to have people living alone than most other parts of the country, which contributes to a typical household size of 2.6 people.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Eerwah Vale — higher than 57% of areas.
| Eerwah Vale | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 4562, QLD | 2.8 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
Only 17.7% of people here live alone, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why households are slightly larger than the usual Australian figure of 2.5 people.
2.6 ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
17.7% ▼ -18.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Eerwah Vale, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (18%) and 4 people (18%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.7% of families in Eerwah Vale. One-parent families account for 11.5%, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
11.5% ▼ -25.7%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Eerwah Vale, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Eerwah Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30944/eerwah-vale/topic/family-households