3.0 ▼ -23.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hope Vale · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hope Vale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Three people or more live in the typical home in Hope Vale, which is much higher than most other areas. Large households are common here, with a particularly high number of single parents raising children compared to the rest of the country.
3.0
▼ -23.1%
- 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 Hope Vale — higher than 86% of areas.
| Hope Vale | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 4895, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Hope Vale are often crowded, with 3.0 people per dwelling—a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5. About 26.2% of residents live alone, which is roughly the same as the national average.
26.2% ▲ +101.7%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 26.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hope Vale splits fairly evenly between 1 person (27%) and 2 people (24%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 36.7% of the community, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Nearly half of all families are couples with children, while 12.2% are couples without children.
36.7% ▲ +38.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hope Vale, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by One-parent families (37%) and Couples without children (12%).
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 Hope Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31357/hope-vale/topic/family-households