1.9 ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Main Beach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Main Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Main Beach, where the typical home holds fewer than two people. This shift is driven by a very high number of people living alone compared to other areas across the country.
1.9
▲ +5.6%
- 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 Main Beach — lower than 89% of areas.
| Main Beach | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 4217, QLD | 2.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Just 1.9 people live in the typical home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is consistent with the 35.5% of residents who live alone, a figure far above the Queensland average.
35.5% ▼ -7.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Main Beach, the largest group is 2 people at 50%, followed by 1 person (36%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 60.4%, while one-parent families are much less common here than across Australia, accounting for only 9.7% of families.
9.7% ▼ -2.6%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Main Beach, Couples without children is the majority at 60%; Couples with children is next at 29%.
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 Main Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31735/main-beach/topic/family-households