2.1 ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Surfers Paradise · State Electorate
Family & Households in Surfers Paradise
How families and households are made up across the area.
One third of all homes in Surfers Paradise are occupied by people living alone. This is well above the national figure, making it an area with very small households. The typical home here is much smaller than those in most other similar areas.
2.1
▼ -12.5%
- 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 Surfers Paradise — lower than 95% of areas.
| Surfers Paradise | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Rest of Qld | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A typical home has only 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure and among the lowest at this level. This is partly because the 33.4% of people living alone is well above the state average and has risen since 2011.
33.4% ▲ +16.2%
Higher than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Surfers Paradise, the largest group is 2 people at 41%, followed by 1 person (33%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with or without children make up the vast majority of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up 12.0% of the total, which is well below the Queensland figure and has fallen since 2011.
12.0% ▼ -30.4%
Lower than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Surfers Paradise splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Surfers Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30082/surfers-paradise/topic/family-households