3.1 ▲ +6.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Underwood · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Underwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Underwood than in most other similar areas, with 3.1 people per dwelling. This is a little above the Queensland and national figures of 2.5. It is a place where few people live on their own, and the vast majority of households are families.
3.1
▲ +6.9%
- 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 Underwood — higher than 88% of areas.
| Underwood | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 4119, QLD | 3.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 15.2% of residents live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why household sizes are among the highest at this level, with 26.6% of homes housing two people and 22.5% housing four.
15.2% ▲ +0.9%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Underwood splits fairly evenly between 2 people (27%) and 4 people (23%), with 3 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the community at 67.8%. One-parent families account for 11.8%, which is well below the Queensland average of 15.4%.
11.8% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Underwood, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 19%.
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 Underwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32897/underwood/topic/family-households