1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tin Can Bay · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tin Can Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Tin Can Bay than in the rest of the country. This creates a striking gap with the national average, as the area is dominated by very small households. The typical home here holds just 1.8 people, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Tin Can Bay — lower than 91% of areas.
| Tin Can Bay | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 4580, QLD | 2.0 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 40% of residents live by themselves, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the area has some of the lowest numbers of people per home, with about half of all households consisting of just two people.
39.8% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tin Can Bay, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 1 person (40%) and 3 people (6%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples without children, making up 67.2% of the total. One-parent families account for 10.9%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
10.9% ▼ -37.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tin Can Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 67%; Couples with children is next at 21%.
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 Tin Can Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32826/tin-can-bay/topic/family-households