2.1 ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lowmead · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Lowmead
How families and households are made up across the area.
Roughly 39% of Lowmead households consist of two people, making it the most common living arrangement in the area. The community is smaller than usual, with a high number of people living alone and a significant proportion of single-parent families.
2.1
▼ -16.0%
- 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 Lowmead — lower than 81% of areas.
| Lowmead | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4676, QLD | 2.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than typical, with only 2.1 people per home compared to 2.5 nationally. This is partly because 29% of people live alone, a figure well above the Queensland average of 24.7%.
29.0% ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lowmead, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (32%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 26.4% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 14.1% and among the highest for similar areas. Couples without children are the most common family type at 37.7%.
26.4% ▲ +115.1%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Lowmead splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (37%) and Couples with children (33%), with One-parent families at 26%.
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 Lowmead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31699/lowmead/topic/family-households