2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Point Arkwright · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Point Arkwright
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Point Arkwright than in most similar areas. This creates a smaller typical household size of 2.2 people, which is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
2.2
→ 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 Point Arkwright — lower than 76% of areas.
| Point Arkwright | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4573, QLD | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 37.7% of people here live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the usual home here has fewer people than most other areas.
37.7% ▲ +6.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Point Arkwright, the largest group is 1 person at 37%, followed by 2 people (27%) and 4 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families are couples with children, while one-parent families make up 12.9%, which is higher than most similar areas but a little below the national figure.
12.9% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Point Arkwright, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 35%.
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 Point Arkwright [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32342/point-arkwright/topic/family-households