2.9 ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sumner · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Sumner
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households are common in Sumner compared to most similar areas. The typical home here holds 2.9 people, which is a little above the Queensland and national figures of 2.5.
2.9
▲ +3.6%
- 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 Sumner — higher than 81% of areas.
| Sumner | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 4074, QLD | 2.8 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 13.2% of people live alone, a figure far below the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain the larger home sizes, with 31% of households containing two people and 25.9% holding four.
13.2% ▼ -11.0%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sumner, the largest group is 2 people at 31%, followed by 4 people (26%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of families at 67.9%. One-parent families account for 10.2%, which is well below the 14.1% national figure.
10.2% ▲ +38.7%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sumner, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Sumner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32689/sumner/topic/family-households