2.1 ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Palm Grove · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Palm Grove
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller household sizes define daily life in Palm Grove, where the typical home holds just two people. This is much lower than most similar areas and sits below the national figure of 2.5 people per home.
2.1
▼ -27.6%
- 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 Palm Grove — lower than 81% of areas.
| Palm Grove | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4800, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 45% of homes are shared by two people, while 22.6% are occupied by someone living alone. This lone-person rate is slightly below the Queensland figure of 24.7%.
22.6% ▲ +58.1%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Palm Grove, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families at 53.1%. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, a figure far below the national average of 14.1%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Palm Grove, Couples without children is the majority at 63%; Couples with children is next at 37%.
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 Palm Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32259/palm-grove/topic/family-households