2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rainbow Beach · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Rainbow Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller living arrangements define daily life in Rainbow Beach, where homes typically hold far fewer people than in other parts of the country. Only 2.0 people live in the usual home, a figure well below the national and state average of 2.5.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Rainbow Beach — lower than 86% of areas.
| Rainbow Beach | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4581, QLD | 1.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
One in three residents (34.7%) lives alone, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This helps explain why homes here are smaller than most, with nearly half of all households containing only two people.
34.7% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Rainbow Beach, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (35%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up over half of all families at 53.1%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.5% of the total, which is well below the state average of 15.4%.
11.5% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Rainbow Beach, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 34%.
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 Rainbow Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32385/rainbow-beach/topic/family-households