4.5 ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9
- 2016: 4.8
- 2021: 4.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yarrabah · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Yarrabah
How families and households are made up across the area.
A gap of 28 percentage points separates the rate of one-parent families in Yarrabah from the national figure. This is a place of large, bustling households where the typical home holds 4.5 people, far exceeding the Australian average of 2.5.
4.5
▼ -8.2%
- 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 Yarrabah — higher than 99% of areas.
| Yarrabah | 4.5 |
|---|---|
| 4871, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than most, with 35.6% of households containing six or more people. Very few people live alone (11.1%), which is far below the Queensland figure of 24.7%.
11.1% ▲ +11.6%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Yarrabah, the largest group is 6 or more at 36%, followed by 4 people (16%) and 2 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 42.6% of the total, a figure that is far above the national average of 14.1%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 48.2%.
42.6% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.4%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Yarrabah, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by One-parent families (43%) and Couples without children (7%).
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 Yarrabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33207/yarrabah/topic/family-households