2.8 → 0.0%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Springwood · State Electorate
Family & Households in Springwood
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a roof in Springwood than in most other areas, with the typical home housing 2.8 people. This creates a community where large households are the norm and very few people live by themselves.
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 Springwood — higher than 79% of areas.
| Springwood | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Greater Brisbane | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 17.2% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6% and much lower than most areas. This helps explain why homes are larger here, with 32.6% of households containing two people and nearly 20% holding four.
17.2% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Springwood, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 4 people (20%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families in Springwood are couples with children, making up 62.9% of the total. One-parent families account for 12.5%, a figure that is a little below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
12.5% ▼ -22.6%
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Springwood, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; 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 Springwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30079/springwood/topic/family-households