2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Monkland · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Monkland
How families and households are made up across the area.
A high number of single-person homes and one-parent families shape the daily life of Monkland. This creates a community where smaller living arrangements are far more common than the national typical, with over 30% of homes housing only one person.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Monkland — lower than 71% of areas.
| Monkland | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4570, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Monkland are smaller than most areas, with a typical size of 2.3 people. This is reflected in the 31.1% of people living alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%.
31.1% ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Monkland splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 29.5% of the local total, which is among the highest levels for similar areas and far above the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
29.5% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Monkland, the largest group is Couples with children at 43%, followed by One-parent families (30%) and Couples without children (26%).
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 Monkland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31881/monkland/topic/family-households