2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Innisfail · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Innisfail
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Innisfail than in 2011, reflecting a shift in how the local community is organised. This trend is seen alongside a rise in one-parent families, which now make up 24.7% of the local mix.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 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 Innisfail — lower than 57% of areas.
| Innisfail | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4860, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.7% of people here live alone, a figure that is well above the Queensland and national averages. Because of this, the typical home in Innisfail has 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5.
34.7% ▲ +8.6%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Innisfail splits fairly evenly between 1 person (35%) and 2 people (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families are much more common here than in most other areas, sitting far above the Australian average at 24.7%. This is a growing trend, as the proportion of these families rose 2.3 percentage points since 2011.
24.7% ▲ +10.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Innisfail, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (28%) and One-parent families (25%).
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 Innisfail [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314013/innisfail/topic/family-households