2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Newtown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Newtown
How families and households are made up across the area.
A shifting home life defines Newtown, where a high number of people now live alone. This area is far more likely to have single-person homes than most other similar places. The typical household is smaller than the national figure, with only 2.2 people per home.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Newtown — lower than 76% of areas.
| Newtown | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4350, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are very common here, making up 38% of all homes. This is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%, which helps explain why the typical home in Newtown has fewer people than the national average.
38.0% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Newtown splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.6% of the total, which is among the highest for this kind of area. This is far above the Australian figure of 14.1%.
25.6% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 25.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Newtown, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (29%) and One-parent families (26%).
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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32139/newtown/topic/family-households