2.4 ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Greenslopes · State Electorate
Family & Households in Greenslopes
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 60% of families in Greenslopes consist of couples with children, making this the most common living arrangement. However, the area is seeing a shift toward smaller households, with a growing number of people living alone.
2.4
▼ -14.3%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Greenslopes — lower than 71% of areas.
| Greenslopes | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Greater Brisbane | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes have risen sharply to 29.4% since 2011, a figure well above the national average. This shift helps explain why the typical number of people per home has dropped to 2.4.
29.4% ▲ +75.6%
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Greenslopes splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 10.7% of the area, which is much lower than most similar places and well below the Queensland figure. This proportion has also fallen by 4.1 percentage points since 2011.
10.7% ▼ -28.0%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Greenslopes, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 28%.
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 Greenslopes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30030/greenslopes/topic/family-households