2.5 ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Taroom · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Taroom
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Taroom than in most similar areas. While the typical household size of 2.5 people matches the national figure, nearly 29% of the community live by themselves.
2.5
▲ +13.6%
- 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 Taroom — higher than 50% of areas.
| Taroom | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 4420, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 28.8% of residents live alone, which is well above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 33.2% of all households.
28.8% ▼ -11.9%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Taroom splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (29%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 59.8% of families, while one-parent families are at 8.2%. This last figure is well below the national average of 14.1%.
8.2% ▼ -28.8%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Taroom, Couples with children is the majority at 60%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Taroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32755/taroom/topic/family-households