2.0 → 0.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Oakwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Oakwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty per cent of people in Oakwood live alone, which is far above the national figure. This makes the area much smaller in household size than most other places, with a typical home holding only two people.
2.0
→ 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 Oakwood — lower than 86% of areas.
| Oakwood | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4670, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Forty per cent of homes are occupied by a single person, a rate that is among the highest for similar areas. This helps explain why the typical household size is just 2.0 people, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5.
40.0% ▲ +4.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Oakwood splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 8%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up half of all families here. One-parent families account for 9.9% of the total, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
9.9% ▲ +19.6%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Oakwood, Couples without children is the majority at 53%; Couples with children is next at 36%.
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 Oakwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32213/oakwood/topic/family-households