2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yeppoon · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher rates of single-person living set Yeppoon apart from most similar areas. The town is characterized by smaller households, with 34.5% of homes housing only one person. This trend contributes to a lower typical household size than the state and national figures.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Yeppoon — lower than 76% of areas.
| Yeppoon | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4703, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
Typical homes in Yeppoon hold 2.2 people, which is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures of 2.5. This is driven by the high number of people living alone, who make up 34.5% of households.
2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
34.5% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Yeppoon splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 13%.
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.2% of the total, a figure well above the national average of 14.1%. Most families here are couples with children (43.1%) or couples without children (36.3%).
19.2% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
In Yeppoon, the largest group is Couples with children at 43%, followed by Couples without children (36%) and One-parent families (19%).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Yeppoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33219/yeppoon/topic/family-households