2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Labrador · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Labrador
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Labrador than in the rest of the country, with 38.2% of households consisting of just one person. This trend makes the area stand out from both Queensland and Australia, resulting in a very small typical household size.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Labrador — lower than 86% of areas.
| Labrador | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4215, QLD | 2.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical Labrador home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of single-person households, which are much more common here than in most other areas.
38.2% ▲ +9.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Labrador splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 22.8% of the local total, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. This puts Labrador among the highest areas for this family type.
22.8% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Labrador splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (40%) and Couples without children (35%), with One-parent families at 23%.
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 Labrador [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31601/labrador/topic/family-households