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.
North Toowoomba · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in North Toowoomba
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in North Toowoomba than in most similar areas, with 36.9% of households consisting of just one person. This creates a landscape of smaller living arrangements, where the typical home holds only 2.2 people.
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 North Toowoomba — lower than 76% of areas.
| North Toowoomba | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4350, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One-person households are far more common here than in the rest of Queensland, where the figure is 24.7%. This helps explain why the typical home size of 2.2 people is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
36.9% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →North Toowoomba splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (33%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.4% of the total, a figure well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Other family types include couples with children, who represent 47.2% of households.
21.4% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In North Toowoomba, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (29%) and One-parent families (21%).
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 North Toowoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32186/north-toowoomba/topic/family-households