2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Freshwater · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Freshwater
How families and households are made up across the area.
Well above the national average of 25.6%, 30% of people in Freshwater live alone. This creates a smaller typical household size than seen across Queensland and Australia. The area has a high proportion of single-person homes and single-parent families.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Freshwater — lower than 71% of areas.
| Freshwater | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4870, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Freshwater has 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is partly because 30% of households are people living alone, a rate well above the Queensland average of 24.7%.
30.0% ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Freshwater splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 19.3% of the area, which is much higher than most other areas and well above the Australian average of 14.1%. About half of all families here are couples with children.
19.3% ▲ +18.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Freshwater, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Freshwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31087/freshwater/topic/family-households