2.4 ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Egerton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mount Egerton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 70% of families in Mount Egerton are couples with children, making this the most common household type in the area. This strong family presence is mirrored in the homes, where the typical household size has grown to 2.4 people since 2011.
2.4
▲ +9.1%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Mount Egerton — higher than 57% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is more common here than in the state or national figures, with 30.8% of households consisting of one person. This is a rise of 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
30.8% ▲ +17.7%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mount Egerton splits fairly evenly between 1 person (30%) and 2 people (30%), with 4 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up only 5.0% of the total, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
5.0% ▼ -33.5%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Egerton, Couples with children is the majority at 69%; 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 Mount Egerton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222057/mount-egerton/topic/family-households