1.9 ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Burrum Heads · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Burrum Heads
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Burrum Heads, where the typical home contains fewer than two people. This trend is driven by a high number of couples without children and a growing proportion of people living on their own.
1.9
▼ -17.4%
- 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 Burrum Heads — lower than 93% of areas.
| Burrum Heads | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 4659, QLD | 2.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Just 1.9 people live in each home, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This shift is partly due to the number of people living alone rising to 29.4%, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
29.4% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Burrum Heads, 2 people is the majority at 61%; 1 person is next at 30%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the vast majority of families here at 77.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 7.3%, which is well below the Queensland average of 15.4%.
7.3% ▼ -55.7%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Burrum Heads, Couples without children is the majority at 78%; Couples with children is next at 14%.
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 Burrum Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315011/burrum-heads/topic/family-households