3.2 ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Thursday Island · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Thursday Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families on Thursday Island are couples with children. This is a community where homes are often crowded, with a typical household holding 3.2 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5.
3.2
▼ -5.9%
- 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 Thursday Island — higher than 89% of areas.
| Thursday Island | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 4875, QLD | 3.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than usual, as 14% of households hold six or more people. While 23.2% of residents live alone, this is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
23.2% ▲ +14.8%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Thursday Island splits fairly evenly between 2 people (24%) and 1 person (23%), with 4 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 27.2% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average of 14.1%.
27.2% ▲ +16.1%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Thursday Island, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; One-parent families is next at 27%.
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 Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32823/thursday-island/topic/family-households