2.7 ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Petrie · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Petrie
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Petrie than in most other areas, with only 19.0% of households consisting of a single person. This makes Petrie a place where most homes are shared, contributing to a typical household size of 2.7 people.
2.7
▼ -3.6%
- 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 Petrie — higher than 71% of areas.
| Petrie | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 4502, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than the usual area, with 2.7 people per dwelling. This is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia, and is driven by the fact that only 19.0% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
19.0% ▲ +23.8%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Petrie, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 1 person (19%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 57.8%. One-parent families account for 15.3% of the total, a figure that is higher than most areas and a little above the Australian average of 14.1%.
15.3% ▲ +12.8%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Petrie, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Petrie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32303/petrie/topic/family-households