2.5 ▼ -7.4%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Keppel · State Electorate
Family & Households in Keppel
How families and households are made up across the area.
Typical household sizes in Keppel are around the middle for similar areas, with an average of 2.5 people per home. This matches both the Queensland and national figures. Most homes are headed by couples, and the area has seen a slight drop in the number of people living in each house since 2011.
2.5
▼ -7.4%
- 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 Keppel — lower than 57% of areas.
| Keppel | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 23.3% of people here live alone, which is a little below the national figure of 25.6%. While this is lower than in most areas, the number of single-person households has risen by 2.7 percentage points since 2011.
23.3% ▲ +13.2%
Lower than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Keppel, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up more than half of all families at 53.8%. One-parent families account for 14.4% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages, though it has fallen by 2.1 percentage points over the last decade.
14.4% ▼ -12.9%
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Keppel, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Keppel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30041/keppel/topic/family-households