2.4 ▼ -11.1%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mermaid Beach · State Electorate
Family & Households in Mermaid Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
About the same as the national average, Mermaid Beach has a typical household size of 2.4 people. The area is largely made up of couples, with over half of all families having children.
2.4
▼ -11.1%
- 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 Mermaid Beach — lower than 71% of areas.
| Mermaid Beach | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are slightly smaller than in most similar areas, with the number of people per home falling from 2.7 in 2011 to 2.4. More people are living alone now, a figure that rose 6.1 percentage points since 2011 to reach 25.3%.
25.3% ▲ +31.6%
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mermaid Beach, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 54.1% of families, while 30.1% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 14.6%, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
14.6% ▲ +51.1%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mermaid Beach, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Mermaid Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30053/mermaid-beach/topic/family-households