2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ellesmere · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ellesmere
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of households in Ellesmere are just one person, making it a place where living alone is far more common than in most other areas. This trend helps explain why the typical home here holds only 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Ellesmere — lower than 76% of areas.
| Ellesmere | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4610, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Around 35.6% of people live alone, a figure far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. Small households are the norm, with 38.6% of homes holding two people and 35.6% holding one.
35.6% ▲ +93.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ellesmere splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.1% of the total, which is well above the 14.1% national average. Other common family types include couples with children at 38.8% and couples without children at 36.4%.
21.1% ▲ +116.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Ellesmere splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (40%) and Couples without children (37%), with One-parent families at 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 Ellesmere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30965/ellesmere/topic/family-households