3.1 ▲ +34.8%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alice River · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Alice River
How families and households are made up across the area.
An unusually small number of people live alone in Alice River, where only 8.3% of households are single-person. This area is largely defined by larger family groups, with the typical home now holding 3.1 people. This is a significant increase from 2011, when the usual household size was just 2.3.
3.1
▲ +34.8%
- 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 Alice River — higher than 88% of areas.
| Alice River | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 4817, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than in most other areas, with 3.1 people per household compared to the national figure of 2.5. This trend is reflected in the breakdown, where 35.6% of homes hold two people and 22.1% hold four.
8.3% ▼ -67.6%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Alice River, the largest group is 2 people at 36%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 64.9%. One-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, at 9.1%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
9.1% ▼ -34.5%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alice River, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 26%.
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 Alice River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315002/alice-river/topic/family-households