2.8 ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Long Pocket · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Long Pocket
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people share a home in Long Pocket than in most similar areas. This is a place where few people live alone, and the typical household is larger than the national figure.
2.8
▲ +3.7%
- 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 Long Pocket — higher than 76% of areas.
| Long Pocket | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4850, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here average 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. Only 16.7% of people live alone, a figure that is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
16.7% ▼ -11.7%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Long Pocket, the largest group is 2 people at 46%, followed by 3 people (21%) and 1 person (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Two-parent families with children make up 66.7% of the area. Only 9.1% of families are headed by one parent, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.1% ▲ +141.4%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Long Pocket, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Long Pocket [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31684/long-pocket/topic/family-households