2.3 —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Plainby · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Plainby
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Plainby are couples with children, making them the most common household type. The area has a small typical home size and a high number of people living alone compared to other regions. These patterns contribute to a smaller average household size than the national figure.
2.3
—
- 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 Plainby — lower than 71% of areas.
| Plainby | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4355, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A high 32% of people in Plainby live alone, which is well above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This helps explain why the typical home has only 2.3 people, a little below the Australian average of 2.5.
32.0% —
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Plainby splits fairly evenly between 2 people (45%) and 1 person (40%), with 4 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 53.7% of families, while 43.9% are couples without children. Notably, there are no one-parent families here, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Plainby, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 45%.
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 Plainby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32339/plainby/topic/family-households