1.9 ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cardwell · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Cardwell
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of people in Cardwell live alone, marking it as an area with very small households. This trend has grown over the last decade, making the town much more likely to have single-person homes than other parts of the state.
1.9
▼ -9.5%
- 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 Cardwell — lower than 93% of areas.
| Cardwell | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 4849, QLD | 1.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Small households are the norm here, with the typical home holding just 1.9 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the 39.9% of residents who live alone, a figure that has risen since 2011.
39.9% ▲ +17.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cardwell splits fairly evenly between 2 people (43%) and 1 person (40%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 48.9%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up 19.1% of the total, which is well above the Australian average of 14.1%.
19.1% ▲ +49.1%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cardwell, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by Couples with children (31%) and One-parent families (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 Cardwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315014/cardwell/topic/family-households