2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Proserpine · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Proserpine
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all families in Proserpine are couples with children. This is the most common family type in the area, though there is also a very high number of people living by themselves compared to the rest of the country.
2.4
→ 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 Proserpine — lower than 57% of areas.
| Proserpine | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 4800, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are very common here, with 32.1% of people living alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. Overall, the typical home has 2.4 people, about the same as in Queensland and across Australia.
32.1% ▲ +12.0%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 32.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Proserpine splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.1% of the total, a figure that is much higher than most areas and well above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
21.1% ▲ +12.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Proserpine, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Proserpine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32368/proserpine/topic/family-households