2.6 ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ridgewood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ridgewood
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Ridgewood consist of couples with children. This is a residential area where households are slightly larger than the national figure, with the typical home holding 2.6 people.
2.6
▲ +8.3%
- 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 Ridgewood — higher than 57% of areas.
| Ridgewood | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 4563, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Most homes in Ridgewood house two people (39.1%), while 23.6% are occupied by someone living alone. This last figure is a little below the national average of 25.6%.
23.6% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 23.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Ridgewood, the largest group is 2 people at 39%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.4% of families here. In contrast, one-parent families account for 11.0%, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
11.0% ▲ +53.7%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Ridgewood, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 36%.
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 Ridgewood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32428/ridgewood/topic/family-households