2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Meikleville Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Meikleville Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Meikleville Hill are occupied by couples without children. This makes it a place where small households are the norm, with the typical home holding just 2.2 people.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Meikleville Hill — lower than 76% of areas.
| Meikleville Hill | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4703, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 28% of people live alone, which is well above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This trend helps explain why the typical home size is a little below the national figure of 2.5 people.
28.0% ▲ +67.2%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Meikleville Hill, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up 48.1% of families here. In contrast, one-parent families account for only 10.2%, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
10.2% ▼ -45.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Meikleville Hill, the largest group is Couples without children at 50%, followed by Couples with children (40%) and One-parent families (11%).
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 Meikleville Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31798/meikleville-hill/topic/family-households