2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mooloolaba · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mooloolaba
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher rates of people living alone than most similar areas define Mooloolaba, where the typical home holds just 2.1 people. This is a little below the Queensland and national figure of 2.5, reflecting a residential pattern skewed toward smaller households.
2.1
→ 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 Mooloolaba — lower than 81% of areas.
| Mooloolaba | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4557, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A third of all households consist of one person, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why Mooloolaba has much lower occupancy per home than most areas, with 39.8% of dwellings housing two people.
33.2% ▲ +5.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mooloolaba, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (33%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 44.6% of families, while couples without children account for 39.6%. One-parent families make up 14.7% of the total, a figure that is higher than most areas but about the same as the Queensland average.
14.7% ▼ -19.1%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mooloolaba splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (40%), with One-parent families at 15%.
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 Mooloolaba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31895/mooloolaba/topic/family-households