Woowoonga · Suburb / Locality

Family & Households in Woowoonga

How families and households are made up across the area.

Smaller home sizes are common in Woowoonga, where a high number of people live by themselves. This creates a landscape of modest households, with the typical home holding just 2.3 people.

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Where Woowoonga sits — Average household size

2.3
  • 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 Woowoonga — lower than 71% of areas.

Average household size compared with the state and national average
Woowoonga2.3
4621, QLD 2.2
Queensland 2.5
Australia 2.5

Households

Average household size.

About 28.6% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home size is a little below the Queensland average of 2.5 people.

2.3

Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 2.1
  • 2021: 2.3

Average number of people usually resident per household.

28.6%

Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 15.4%
  • 2021: 28.6%

Share of households that are a single person living alone.

Household size

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In Woowoonga, 2 people is the majority at 53%; 1 person is next at 24%.

Families

Family types and one-parent families.

Couples without children make up the largest group at 46.7%, while one-parent families are much less common here than across Australia, at only 10.0%.

10.0%

Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 12.7%
  • 2021: 10.0%

Share of people who live in one-parent families.

Family composition

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Woowoonga splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (46%) and Couples with children (45%), with One-parent families at 10%.

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 Woowoonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33164/woowoonga/topic/family-households