2.6 ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wheatlands · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wheatlands
How families and households are made up across the area.
Zero one-parent families set Wheatlands apart from the rest of the state and nation. Most of the community lives in family units, with a typical home holding 2.6 people.
2.6
▼ -7.1%
- 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 Wheatlands — higher than 57% of areas.
| Wheatlands | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 4606, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Half of all households in Wheatlands consist of two people, while 25% are people living alone. The typical household size is 2.6 people, which is about the same as the Queensland and Australian figures.
25.0% ▲ +68.2%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wheatlands, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 53.1% of families here. The same-sex or single-parent family rate is far below the national figure of 14.1%, with no one-parent families recorded in the area.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wheatlands, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 39%.
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 Wheatlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33056/wheatlands/topic/family-households