2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ridgelands · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ridgelands
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Ridgelands consist of couples with children. This makes it a place where larger households are common, with a typical home holding 2.8 people, which is a little above the national figure.
2.8
→ 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 Ridgelands — higher than 76% of areas.
| Ridgelands | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4702, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are often more crowded than in most areas, and far fewer people live alone compared to the Queensland average. About 32.3% of households consist of two people, while 21% have four people.
17.7% ▲ +33.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ridgelands, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 4 people (24%) and 1 person (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 58.3% of families, while couples without children account for 30.6%. The proportion of one-parent families is 10.4%, which is well below the national and state figures.
10.4% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ridgelands, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Ridgelands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32427/ridgelands/topic/family-households