2.5 ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Freshwater Point · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Freshwater Point
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Freshwater Point are lived in by couples without children. This makes it a place where family groups are common, with the typical home hosting 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.5
▼ -7.4%
- 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 Freshwater Point — higher than 50% of areas.
| Freshwater Point | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 4737, QLD | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 51.7% of households consist of two people. Only 16.7% of residents live alone, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
16.7% ▲ +11.5%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Freshwater Point, 2 people is the majority at 55%; 1 person is next at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 44% of families here. One-parent families account for 8% of the total, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
8.0% ▲ +65.3%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Freshwater Point splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (43%), with One-parent families at 8%.
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 Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31088/freshwater-point/topic/family-households