2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mulgrave · State Electorate
Family & Households in Mulgrave
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Mulgrave, where a typical home holds 2.8 people. This area has a notably high proportion of single-parent families, making it very different from the state and national patterns.
2.8
→ 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 Mulgrave — higher than 79% of areas.
| Mulgrave | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than in most areas, with 20.8% of people living alone, which is well below the Australian figure of 25.6%. The typical household size has remained steady since 2011, with two-person homes being the most common at 34%.
20.8% ▼ -0.9%
Lower than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mulgrave, the largest group is 2 people at 34%, followed by 1 person (21%) and 3 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 20.6% of the total, a figure that is well above the Queensland average of 15.4% and among the highest for similar areas. More than half of all families here are couples with children.
20.6% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mulgrave, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; 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 Mulgrave [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30060/mulgrave/topic/family-households