2.3 ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Noosa Heads · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Noosa Heads
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small household sizes are a defining feature of Noosa Heads, where 47.1% of homes are shared by just two people. The area is more likely to have smaller living arrangements than most other similar places, with typical homes holding fewer people than the state and national figures.
2.3
▲ +4.5%
- 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 Noosa Heads — lower than 71% of areas.
| Noosa Heads | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4567, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are smaller than the national figure, with an average of 2.3 people per dwelling. About 24.5% of residents live alone, which is roughly the same as the Queensland average.
24.5% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Noosa Heads, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 46.4%. Only 11.3% of families are one-parent households, a figure that is well below the Queensland average.
11.3% ▼ -8.7%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Noosa Heads splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (46%) and Couples with children (42%), with One-parent families at 11%.
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 Noosa Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32160/noosa-heads/topic/family-households