1.9 ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 1.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Childers · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Childers
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all households in Childers consist of just one person, a figure far above the national average. This shift toward smaller living arrangements is a defining feature of the area, where the typical home now houses fewer people than it did a decade ago.
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 Childers — lower than 93% of areas.
| Childers | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| 4660, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost half of residents (49.1%) live alone, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This has led to a small typical household size of 1.9 people, well below the national figure of 2.5.
49.1% ▲ +56.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 49.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Childers, the largest group is 1 person at 50%, followed by 2 people (30%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 26.5% of the total, which is far above the Australian average of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 8.9 percentage points since 2011.
26.5% ▲ +50.5%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Childers splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (38%) and Couples without children (34%), with One-parent families 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 Childers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315019/childers/topic/family-households