2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Eight Mile Plains · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Eight Mile Plains
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Eight Mile Plains, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5 and suggests a community focused on shared living and larger family units.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Eight Mile Plains — higher than 76% of areas.
| Eight Mile Plains | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4113, QLD | 2.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than in most areas, with 2.8 people per dwelling. This helps explain why far fewer people live alone here—only 18.7% compared to the 25.6% national average.
18.7% ▲ +11.8%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Eight Mile Plains, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 3 people (21%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the biggest group at 63.1%. One-parent families represent 11.3% of the total, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
11.3% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Eight Mile Plains, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Eight Mile Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30950/eight-mile-plains/topic/family-households