2.4 —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Tully · Suburb / Locality
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.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Mount Tully — lower than 57% of areas.
| Mount Tully | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 4380 crosses QLD/NSW | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
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.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
30.0% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Mount Tully splits fairly evenly between 1 person (30%) and 2 people (30%), with 4 people at 25%.
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.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Mount Tully, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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