2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Beachmere · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Beachmere
How families and households are made up across the area.
Beachmere sits around the middle of similar areas for its household makeup, though it has a higher share of single-parent families than most. The typical home here is smaller than the national figure, with only 2.3 people living in each dwelling.
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 Beachmere — lower than 57% of areas.
| Beachmere | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4510, QLD | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 28.4% of people live alone, a figure that is well above the Queensland average and has risen since 2011. Two-person homes are the most common at 42.1%, which helps explain why the typical household size is slightly below the national figure of 2.5.
28.4% ▲ +5.7%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 28.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Beachmere, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.9% of the area, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion is higher than most similar areas, although the figure fell by 3.3 points since 2011.
18.9% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Beachmere splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 19%.
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 Beachmere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315007/beachmere/topic/family-households