Upper Stone · Suburb / Locality

Family & Households in Upper Stone

How families and households are made up across the area.

Couples with children make up 60% of families in Upper Stone, making them the most common household type. While many families live here, a striking number of people live on their own compared to the rest of the country.

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📍 Upper Stone, Suburb / Locality

Where Upper Stone sits — Average household size

2.4
  • 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 Upper Stone — lower than 57% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Upper Stone2.4
4850, QLD 2.2
Queensland 2.5
Australia 2.5

Households

Average household size.

About 34.9% of people live alone, which is far above the Queensland figure and well above the national average. The typical home holds 2.4 people, which is about the same as the national figure of 2.5.

2.4

Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 2.3
  • 2021: 2.4

Average number of people usually resident per household.

34.9%

Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 21.9%
  • 2021: 34.9%

Share of households that are a single person living alone.

Household size

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Upper Stone splits fairly evenly between 1 person (31%) and 2 people (31%), with 4 people at 17%.

Families

Family types and one-parent families.

One-parent families make up 7.8% of the total, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.

7.8%

Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 14.5%
  • 2021: 7.8%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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In Upper Stone, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 31%.

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 Upper Stone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32917/upper-stone/topic/family-households