3.6 ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2
- 2016: 3.7
- 2021: 3.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ransome · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
An unusually high 3.6 people per home make Ransome a place of large households. Most residents live in family settings, with very few people living on their own compared to the rest of the country.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Ransome — higher than 96% of areas.
| Ransome | 3.6 |
|---|---|
| 4154, QLD | 3.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than the national figure of 2.5 people, with a quarter of all households containing four people. Only 12.5% of people live alone, which is far below the Australian average of 25.6%.
3.6 ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
12.5% ▲ +26.8%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Ransome splits fairly evenly between 4 people (25%) and 2 people (24%), with 5 people at 19%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the area at 67.9%. Single-parent families are less common here than in most other areas, accounting for just 8.7% of the total.
8.7% ▼ -13.2%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Ransome, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Ransome [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32392/ransome/topic/family-households