2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Maryborough · State Electorate
Family & Households in Maryborough
How families and households are made up across the area.
A mix of smaller households and a high rate of single parents shapes daily life in Maryborough. While the typical home size is about the same as the national figure, one-parent families are more common here than in most similar areas.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 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 Maryborough — lower than 71% of areas.
| Maryborough | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 26% of people live alone, a figure that has risen slightly since 2011. Most homes are small, with 42.9% of households containing just two people and 2.4 people per home on average.
26.0% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Maryborough, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (26%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 16.5% of the total, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%. Couples with children are the most common family type at 44.3%.
16.5% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 16.6%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Maryborough, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Maryborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30051/maryborough/topic/family-households