2.3 ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cooktown · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Cooktown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Cooktown than in the rest of Queensland, with 35.6% of households containing just one person. This trend is reflected in a smaller typical home size than the national figure. While many live solo, nearly half of the local families are couples with children.
2.3
▲ +4.5%
- 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 Cooktown — lower than 57% of areas.
| Cooktown | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4895, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A little fewer than the national typical of 2.5 people live in each home here, at 2.3 people. The number of people living alone is far above the Queensland figure, and has risen since 2011.
35.6% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Cooktown splits fairly evenly between 1 person (36%) and 2 people (32%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.7% of the local total, which is well above the national figure. This has seen a significant increase since 2011, rising by 6.0 percentage points.
19.7% ▲ +43.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cooktown, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (31%) and One-parent families (20%).
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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315024/cooktown/topic/family-households