2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Meandarra · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Meandarra
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of homes in Meandarra are occupied by a single person, which is far higher than the national figure. This creates a community where small households are common and the typical home holds fewer people than most areas in Australia.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Meandarra — lower than 81% of areas.
| Meandarra | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4422, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.1 people live in the typical home, which is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5. This is driven by a high number of single-person households, making up 39.3% of the total.
39.3% ▲ +26.2%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Meandarra, the largest group is 1 person at 38%, followed by 2 people (32%) and 4 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 47.4% of families, while those without children account for 44.5%. Only 5.8% of families are one-parent households, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
5.8% ▲ +69.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Meandarra splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (49%) and Couples without children (46%), with One-parent families at 6%.
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 Meandarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31797/meandarra/topic/family-households