2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yerra · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Yerra
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller-than-average home sizes define daily life in Yerra, where only 2.3 people live in the typical household. This is a place where most homes are occupied by couples, with very few people living on their own compared to the rest of the country.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Yerra — lower than 71% of areas.
| Yerra | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4650, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Half of all homes in Yerra are occupied by two people, which helps explain why the typical household size is a little below the Australian figure of 2.5. Only 17.4% of residents live alone, a rate well below both the Queensland and national figures.
17.4% ▼ -9.9%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Yerra, 2 people is the majority at 51%; 3 people is next at 24%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families here, with 46.7% having children and 40.2% without. One-parent families account for 12.0% of the total, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
12.0% ▲ +7.6%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Yerra, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Yerra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33221/yerra/topic/family-households