2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Maroon · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Maroon than in the rest of Queensland, with only 4.9% of families falling into this group. Most households here are small, with the typical home holding 2.3 people.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Maroon — lower than 71% of areas.
| Maroon | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4310, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
Homes in Maroon are slightly smaller than the national figure of 2.5 people. Two-person households are the most common, making up 44.4% of the area.
2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
23.8% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Maroon, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 4 people (17%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families are couples with children, while couples without children make up 39.8%. This helps explain why one-parent families are well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
4.9% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Maroon, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Maroon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31773/maroon/topic/family-households