2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hughenden · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Hughenden
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Hughenden than in most similar areas, with 37.5% of all households consisting of a single person. This trend means homes here are generally smaller, with fewer people per house than the national figure.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Hughenden — lower than 76% of areas.
| Hughenden | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4821, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.2 people live in the typical home, which is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of single-person homes, which are far more common here than across the rest of the country.
37.5% ▲ +14.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hughenden splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (35%), with 4 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.5% of the local total, a figure that is well above the national average. Most families in the area are couples with children, who account for 48.4% of family households.
17.5% ▲ +47.3%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hughenden, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Hughenden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31369/hughenden/topic/family-households