3.1 ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Samson · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Samson
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Mount Samson, where the typical home holds 3.1 people. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5, marking it as one of the most crowded residential areas in the region.
3.1
▼ -3.1%
- 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 Mount Samson — higher than 88% of areas.
| Mount Samson | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 4520, QLD | 3.0 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Very few people live alone here, with only 8.3% of households being single-person, which is far below the 25.6% national figure. Most homes house two people (41.4%) or four people (21.0%).
8.3% ▲ +75.1%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Samson, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up 61.0% of the area. One-parent families are less common here than in most other areas, at 8.9%, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
8.9% ▲ +49.1%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Samson, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Samson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32019/mount-samson/topic/family-households