2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Speewah · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much lower rates of single-parent families set Speewah apart from the rest of the state. The area is mostly made up of couples, with nearly half of all families raising children together. These strong family ties are reflected in the typical home, where 2.4 people live together.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Speewah — lower than 57% of areas.
| Speewah | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 4881, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
About 21.3% of people here live alone, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. Two-person households are the most common, making up 48.4% of all homes.
2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
21.3% ▲ +23.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Speewah, the largest group is 2 people at 48%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 4 people (14%).
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 47.1% of families, while couples without children account for 45.6%. Only 6.8% of families are one-parent households, a figure that is well below the national average.
6.8% ▼ -49.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Speewah splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (47%) and Couples without children (46%), with One-parent families at 7%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Speewah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32615/speewah/topic/family-households