2.4 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Toowoomba · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Toowoomba
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Toowoomba than a decade ago, with single-person households rising by 6.7 percentage points since 2011. This shift occurs while the typical home still holds about 2.4 people. Family structures are also changing, as the share of one-parent families has grown to 18.4%.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 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 Toowoomba — higher than 57% of areas.
| Toowoomba | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 4350, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31.4% of people here live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most common at 35.2%, while the typical home size has stayed steady at 2.4 people since 2011.
31.4% ▲ +27.0%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Toowoomba splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.4% of the total, which is well above the Queensland figure of 15.4%. This group has grown by 3.9 percentage points over the last decade, though couples with children remain the largest family group at 50.8%.
18.4% ▲ +26.8%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Toowoomba, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Toowoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL303002/toowoomba/topic/family-households