Mount Tully · Suburb / Locality

Family & Households in Mount Tully

How families and households are made up across the area.

Household patterns have shifted in Mount Tully, where a high number of people now live alone. This is a sparsely populated area where about 30% of homes are occupied by just one person. Single-parent families are also much more common here than in the rest of the state.

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📍 Mount Tully, Suburb / Locality

Where Mount Tully sits — Average household size

2.4
  • 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 Tully — lower than 57% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Mount Tully2.4
4380 crosses QLD/NSW 2.3
Queensland 2.5
Australia 2.5

Households

Average household size.

About 30% of residents live alone, which is well above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. The typical home holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure of 2.5.

2.4

Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 2.5
  • 2021: 2.4

Average number of people usually resident per household.

30.0%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 27.9%
  • 2021: 30.0%

Share of households that are a single person living alone.

Household size

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Mount Tully splits fairly evenly between 1 person (30%) and 2 people (30%), with 4 people at 25%.

Families

Family types and one-parent families.

One-parent families make up 20.5% of the total, a figure well above the 14.1% national average. Couples with children are the most common family type, accounting for 51.8% of households.

20.5%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 20.5%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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In Mount Tully, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 23%.

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 Tully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32032/mount-tully/topic/family-households