2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Purga · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Purga
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Purga compared to the rest of the country, with only 16.7% of households being single-person homes. This creates a community where homes are generally larger than the national figure, typically housing 2.8 people.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 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 Purga — higher than 76% of areas.
| Purga | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4306, QLD | 2.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
With 2.8 people per home, Purga is much higher than most areas and a little above the Australian figure of 2.5. This trend is reflected in the breakdown, where 38.2% of households contain two people and 21.5% have three.
16.7% ▲ +0.5%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Purga, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 3 people (21%) and 1 person (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 58.1%. One-parent families account for 11.5%, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
11.5% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Purga, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Purga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32374/purga/topic/family-households