2.7 ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wavell Heights · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wavell Heights
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Wavell Heights than in most similar areas, with 2.7 people per household. This is a family-focused suburb where few people live alone and single-parent homes are much less common than the national figure.
2.7
▲ +8.0%
- 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 Wavell Heights — higher than 71% of areas.
| Wavell Heights | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 4012, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 20.5% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes here are larger than usual, with 30.7% of households containing two people and 22.1% holding four.
20.5% ▼ -12.1%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wavell Heights, the largest group is 2 people at 31%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 1 person (20%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 66.9% of families here. One-parent families account for 10.6%, a figure that is well below the Queensland average of 15.4%.
10.6% ▼ -16.8%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wavell Heights, Couples with children is the majority at 67%; Couples without 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 Wavell Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33015/wavell-heights/topic/family-households