2.1 ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mackay Harbour · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mackay Harbour
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Mackay Harbour are couples without children. This is a place where homes are often smaller and more people live alone than in most other areas, with the typical home holding just 2.1 people.
2.1
▼ -4.5%
- 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 Mackay Harbour — lower than 81% of areas.
| Mackay Harbour | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4740, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.1% of people live alone, which is well above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This helps explain why the typical home in Mackay Harbour has only 2.1 people, a bit lower than the Australian average of 2.5.
30.1% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mackay Harbour, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up 51.2% of families here. Only 7.8% are one-parent families, a figure that is well below both the state (15.4%) and national (14.1%) figures.
7.8% ▲ +7.3%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mackay Harbour, Couples without children is the majority at 51%; Couples with children is next at 41%.
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 Mackay Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31725/mackay-harbour/topic/family-households