1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Macleay Island · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Macleay Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-one per cent of people on Macleay Island live alone, which is far higher than the national figure. This means the island has a very high number of single-person homes and an unusually small average household size. Most homes here house only one or two people.
1.9
▼ -9.5%
- 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 Macleay Island — lower than 89% of areas.
| Macleay Island | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 4184, QLD | 1.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes on Macleay Island are much smaller than most areas, with only 1.9 people per household compared to the Australian figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 41% of residents live alone, a rate far above both Queensland and the rest of the country.
41.0% ▲ +17.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 41.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Macleay Island splits fairly evenly between 2 people (43%) and 1 person (41%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 55.9%, though one-parent families are much more common here than in most areas. At 17.2%, the rate of one-parent families is well above the Australian average of 14.1%.
17.2% ▼ -32.6%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Macleay Island, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 25%.
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 Macleay Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31731/macleay-island/topic/family-households