2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Pleasant · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Pleasant
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Mount Pleasant, where the typical home holds 2.8 people. This is a little above the national figure and reflects a community where few people live by themselves.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Pleasant — higher than 76% of areas.
| Mount Pleasant | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4521, QLD | 2.8 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Just 15.3% of residents live alone, which is far below the Australian average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home is larger than most areas, with 35.1% of households containing two people and 26.7% containing four.
15.3% ▲ +12.3%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Pleasant, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 4 people (26%) and 1 person (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family life is common here, with couples with children making up 60.2% of the total. One-parent families account for 9.4%, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1%.
9.4% ▲ +61.9%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Pleasant, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32015/mount-pleasant/topic/family-households