2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Scarness · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Scarness
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Scarness than in most other areas, with 37.5% of households consisting of just one person. This makes for a very quiet domestic landscape where the typical home is small and holds only two people.
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 Scarness — lower than 86% of areas.
| Scarness | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4655, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 2.0 people live in the typical home, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of single-person households, which are far above the national average.
37.5% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 40.7%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Scarness splits fairly evenly between 2 people (39%) and 1 person (38%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24.0% of the total, a figure that is well above the state and national averages and among the highest for similar areas. Couples without children are the most common family type at 39.9%.
24.0% ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Scarness, the largest group is Couples without children at 40%, followed by Couples with children (35%) and One-parent families (24%).
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 Scarness [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32525/scarness/topic/family-households