2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Oakhurst · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Oakhurst
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Oakhurst compared to the rest of the country. This is an area where households are larger than usual, with the typical home holding 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Oakhurst — higher than 76% of areas.
| Oakhurst | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4650, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 13.1% of people live alone here, a figure far below the 25.6% national average. Most homes are occupied by two people (39.3%) or four people (21.0%), which helps explain why the area has much higher occupancy per home than most places.
13.1% ▲ +40.6%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Oakhurst, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 4 people (21%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 60.5%. One-parent families are less common here than in most areas, making up just 8.5%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
8.5% ▲ +41.9%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Oakhurst, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Oakhurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32211/oakhurst/topic/family-households