2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Pelion · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Pelion
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more one-parent families live in Mount Pelion than in most other areas. This trend stands out against the rest of the state, though the typical home still holds 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 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 Pelion — higher than 50% of areas.
| Mount Pelion | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 4741, QLD | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 20.7% of people here live alone, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 55.2% of all households.
20.7% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Pelion, 2 people is the majority at 59%; 1 person is next at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 20.3% of the local mix, a figure well above the national average of 14.1%. Couples with children (42.4%) and couples without children (40.7%) are also common family types here.
20.3% ▲ +184.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mount Pelion splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 20%.
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 Pelion [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32011/mount-pelion/topic/family-households