2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nambour · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Nambour
How families and households are made up across the area.
A high number of people living alone defines the home life in Nambour. While many homes are small, the area has a very high rate of one-parent families compared to the rest of the country.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Nambour — lower than 71% of areas.
| Nambour | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4560, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32.8% of people here live by themselves, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home in Nambour holds only 2.3 people, a little below the Queensland average of 2.5.
32.8% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 32.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Nambour splits fairly evenly between 1 person (33%) and 2 people (32%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23.3% of the total, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Nearly half of all families here are couples with children, while 26% are couples without children.
23.3% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Nambour, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (26%) and One-parent families (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 Nambour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32099/nambour/topic/family-households