2.8 ▼ -6.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Highfields · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Highfields
How families and households are made up across the area.
A significant shift toward larger family living has seen Highfields grow into a major residential hub since 2011. The area is now defined by large households, with a typical home holding 2.8 people, which is higher than the national figure.
2.8
▼ -6.7%
- 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 Highfields — higher than 76% of areas.
| Highfields | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4352, QLD | 2.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Highfields are larger than most areas, and far fewer people live alone here compared to the rest of Queensland. While 41.9% of households have two people, those with three or more people make up a large portion of the community.
14.3% ▲ +32.1%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Highfields, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 4 people (17%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly 60% of all families here. This helps explain why one-parent families are well below the national and state figures, at just 7.4%.
7.4% ▼ -4.7%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Highfields, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31330/highfields/topic/family-households