2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Menzies · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Menzies
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 39% of people live alone in Menzies, a figure far above the Queensland and Australian averages. This creates a distinct housing pattern where homes are smaller and the typical household is smaller than in most other areas. This is a place where single-person living is much more common than the national norm.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Menzies — lower than 76% of areas.
| Menzies | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4825 crosses QLD/NT | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 38.9% of people living alone, Menzies has one of the highest rates of single-person households. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.2 people, which is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
38.9% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 36.3%
- 2021: 38.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Menzies, the largest group is 1 person at 39%, followed by 2 people (33%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families here are couples with children, making up 51.5% of the total. One-parent families account for 14.6%, a rate that is higher than most areas but about the same as the national and state figures.
14.6% ▼ -35.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Menzies, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Menzies [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31805/menzies/topic/family-households