1.7 → 0.0%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7
- 2016: 1.7
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Maaroom · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Maaroom
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes have become the defining feature of Maaroom since 2011. The area is now mostly made up of couples and people living alone, with a typical home holding just 1.7 people.
1.7
→ 0.0%
- 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 Maaroom — lower than 94% of areas.
| Maaroom | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 4650, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A far higher share of residents live alone here than in the rest of Australia, at 38%. This helps explain why the typical home in Maaroom is much smaller than the Queensland figure, with 57% of households consisting of just two people.
38.0% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Maaroom, 2 people is the majority at 56%; 1 person is next at 37%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the vast majority of families at 81.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 10% of the total, which is well below both the state and national figures.
10.0% ▲ +136.7%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Maaroom, Couples without children is the majority at 81%; One-parent families is next at 10%.
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 Maaroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31716/maaroom/topic/family-households