2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lake Mary · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lake Mary
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Lake Mary, where an average of 2.9 people live in each home. This is a little above the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Lake Mary — higher than 81% of areas.
| Lake Mary | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 4703, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32.3% of people here live alone, which is well above the national figure. Despite this, larger homes are common, with 25.8% of households containing four people.
32.3% ▲ +84.3%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Lake Mary splits fairly evenly between 1 person (32%) and 2 people (32%), with 4 people at 26%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 63.1% of families in the area. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 8.3%, a figure that is well below the state and national averages.
8.3% ▼ -48.7%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lake Mary, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Lake Mary [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31617/lake-mary/topic/family-households