2.0 —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Paluma · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Paluma
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all homes in Paluma are occupied by just one person. This makes the area much smaller in household size than most other parts of the country, with a typical home holding only 2.0 people.
2.0
—
- 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 Paluma — lower than 86% of areas.
| Paluma | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4816, QLD | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 53.1% of people here live alone, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. Because of this, the number of people per home is well below the national average of 2.5.
53.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 59.3%
- 2021: 53.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Paluma, 1 person is the majority at 55%; 2 people is next at 29%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up 51.9% of families here. Notably, there are no one-parent families in the area, a figure far below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Paluma, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 44%.
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 Paluma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32267/paluma/topic/family-households