2.0 ▼ -9.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Monto · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Monto
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty per cent of people in Monto live alone, a figure far above the Queensland and national averages. This makes Monto a place with much smaller households than most other areas. These small home sizes are a defining feature of the local community.
2.0
▼ -9.1%
- 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 Monto — lower than 86% of areas.
| Monto | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4630, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Monto holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is because 40% of households are single-person homes, among the highest rates for areas of this type.
40.0% ▲ +17.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 40.1%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Monto splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (39%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.6% of the total, which is a little above the Australian average. Most families here are couples, with 43.8% having no children and 37.9% having children.
16.6% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Monto, the largest group is Couples without children at 44%, followed by Couples with children (38%) and One-parent families (17%).
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 Monto [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31885/monto/topic/family-households