2.2 ▲ +10.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Watsonville · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Watsonville
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Watsonville than in most similar areas. This creates a unique local profile where over half of all households are single-person homes, a figure far above the national average.
2.2
▲ +10.0%
- 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 Watsonville — lower than 76% of areas.
| Watsonville | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4887, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 50.9% of residents live alone, which is far above the 25.6% seen across Australia. This helps explain why the typical home is smaller, with only 2.2 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5.
50.9% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.7%
- 2016: 42.1%
- 2021: 50.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Watsonville, the largest group is 1 person at 47%, followed by 2 people (26%) and 6 or more (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 71.8% of the total. In contrast, one-parent families account for only 9.4%, which is well below the 14.1% average for Australia.
9.4% ▼ -61.9%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Watsonville, Couples with children is the majority at 69%; Couples without children is next at 16%.
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 Watsonville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33008/watsonville/topic/family-households