1.6 ▼ -27.3%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yowah · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Yowah
How families and households are made up across the area.
Very few people live together in Yowah, where a striking 60% of households are just one person. This makes the area stand out as a place where living alone is far more common than in the rest of the state.
1.6
▼ -27.3%
- 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 Yowah — lower than 97% of areas.
| Yowah | 1.6 |
|---|---|
| 4490, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Yowah are much smaller than usual, with just 1.6 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5. This is consistent with the fact that 60% of residents live alone, a rate far above the Queensland average of 24.7%.
60.0% ▲ +61.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 60.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Yowah, 1 person is the majority at 58%; 2 people is next at 36%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples without children, who make up 77.6% of the group. Only 6.9% are one-parent families, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
6.9% ▲ +144.8%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Yowah, Couples without children is the majority at 74%; Couples with children is next at 20%.
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 Yowah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33224/yowah/topic/family-households