2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
The Leap · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in The Leap
How families and households are made up across the area.
The Leap has seen a steady shift in its family structures since 2011, moving toward larger home sizes. It is now an area where households are typically larger than the national figure, with 2.8 people per home. This is driven by a strong presence of couples with children and very few people living on their own.
2.8
→ 0.0%
- 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 The Leap — higher than 76% of areas.
| The Leap | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| 4740, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than most, with the typical household holding 2.8 people. This is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5, and only 14.3% of residents live alone, which is far below the national rate of 25.6%.
14.3% ▼ -2.6%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In The Leap, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 1 person (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most households are family-based, with couples with children making up 59.5% of the total. One-parent families account for just 8.5%, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
8.5% ▲ +48.9%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In The Leap, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in The Leap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32797/the-leap/topic/family-households