2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Morayfield · State Electorate
Family & Households in Morayfield
How families and households are made up across the area.
A high number of single-parent families shapes daily life in Morayfield, where 23.6% of families are headed by one parent. This is well above the national figure of 14.1% and marks a significant increase over the last decade. Most homes here are family-based, with a typical household size of 2.7 people.
2.7
→ 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 Morayfield — higher than 71% of areas.
| Morayfield | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| Greater Brisbane | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Morayfield holds 2.7 people, which is much higher than in most similar areas. Fewer people live alone here compared to the national average, and this trend has fallen to 23.9% since 2011.
23.9% ▼ -7.7%
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Morayfield, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples and children make up 50.9% of the area. One-parent families are among the highest at this level, sitting well above the Queensland average of 15.4% after rising by 8.5 percentage points since 2011.
23.6% ▲ +55.9%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 23.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Morayfield, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Morayfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30057/morayfield/topic/family-households