1.5 ▼ -21.1%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Fraser Island · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Fraser Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
A huge 40 percentage point gap separates Fraser Island from the national average for people living alone. This is a sparsely populated area where most homes are occupied by only one or two people, creating a living pattern very different from the rest of Queensland.
1.5
▼ -21.1%
- 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 Fraser Island — lower than 99% of areas.
| Fraser Island | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| 4581, QLD | 1.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Sixy-six percent of people live alone, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. Because of this, the typical home has just 1.5 people, much lower than the Queensland average of 2.5.
66.0% ▲ +81.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 40.4%
- 2021: 66.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Fraser Island, 1 person is the majority at 60%; 2 people is next at 40%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the vast majority of families at 80.4%. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, which is far below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Fraser Island, Couples without children is the majority at 80%; Other families is next at 11%.
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 Fraser Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31081/fraser-island/topic/family-households