2.8 ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Ossa · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Ossa
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 66.5% of families in Mount Ossa, marking it as a place where family units are very common. This is a community where homes are typically larger than average, and very few people live by themselves.
2.8
▲ +16.7%
- 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 Mount Ossa — higher than 76% of areas.
| Mount Ossa | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4741, QLD | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here holds 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5. Only 13.5% of people live alone, a rate far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
13.5% ▼ -18.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Ossa, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (14%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families are rare here at just 2.2%, which is far below the 14.1% national average. Most families are couples, with 66.5% raising children and 33% without.
2.2% ▼ -78.3%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Ossa, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Mount Ossa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32010/mount-ossa/topic/family-households