3.1 → 0.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Gaven · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Gaven
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households have become more common in Gaven since 2011, with 3.1 people now living in the typical home. This is a little above the national figure and reflects a community where very few people live alone.
3.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Gaven — higher than 88% of areas.
| Gaven | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 4211, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 11.8% of people live alone, which is far below the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This helps explain why Gaven has some of the highest numbers of people per home in the region.
11.8% ▼ -0.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Gaven, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 4 people (18%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 58.1%. One-parent families account for 14.2%, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the national average.
14.2% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Gaven, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 Gaven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31105/gaven/topic/family-households