1.9 ▲ +11.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Portsmith · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Portsmith
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Portsmith compared to the rest of the state. The area is mostly made up of small households, with the typical home holding fewer than two people.
1.9
▲ +11.8%
- 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 Portsmith — lower than 89% of areas.
| Portsmith | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 4870, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 1.9 people live in each home, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figure of 2.5. This is driven by the 42.9% of people living alone, a rate far above the national average.
42.9% ▼ -25.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.1%
- 2016: 44.0%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Portsmith, the largest group is 1 person at 50%, followed by 2 people (36%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 60.5%. One-parent families account for 11.6% of the total, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
11.6% ▼ -27.6%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Portsmith, Couples without children is the majority at 57%; Couples with children is next at 33%.
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 Portsmith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32354/portsmith/topic/family-households