2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Silkstone · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Silkstone
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Silkstone than in most similar areas, with 30.5% of households consisting of just one person. This contributes to a local housing mix where single-person and two-person homes are the most common arrangements.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 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 Silkstone — lower than 57% of areas.
| Silkstone | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 4304, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.5% of people here live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. With 33.1% of homes housing two people, the typical home has 2.4 people, which is about the same as the Queensland average.
30.5% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Silkstone splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.9% of the total, a figure that is much higher than most areas and well above the Australian average of 14.1%. Nearly half of all families are couples with children, while 26.4% are couples without children.
21.9% ▲ +14.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Silkstone, the largest group is Couples with children at 50%, followed by Couples without children (26%) and One-parent families (22%).
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 Silkstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32560/silkstone/topic/family-households