2.2 ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Atherton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Atherton
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Atherton compared to the rest of the state. This creates a distinct household profile where smaller living arrangements are common, and single-parent families are much more frequent than the national figure.
2.2
▼ -4.3%
- 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 Atherton — lower than 64% of areas.
| Atherton | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4883, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Over a third of residents live alone, a figure that rose 9.6 percentage points since 2011 and is well above the Australian average. This helps explain why the typical home in Atherton has just 2.2 people, which is a little below the national figure.
35.2% ▲ +37.7%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Atherton splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 22.2% of the local total, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This figure has risen by 7.7 percentage points since 2011.
22.2% ▲ +53.5%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Atherton, the largest group is Couples with children at 43%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (22%).
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 Atherton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314001/atherton/topic/family-households