2.7 ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Jacobs Well · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Jacobs Well
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Jacobs Well, where the typical home holds nearly three people. This is a family-heavy area with very few people living on their own compared to the rest of the country.
2.7
▲ +3.8%
- 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 Jacobs Well — higher than 76% of areas.
| Jacobs Well | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 4208, QLD | 3.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.7 people, a figure that has edged up since 2011. Only 13.3% of households are people living alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%.
13.3% ▼ -22.0%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Jacobs Well, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 3 people (21%) and 4 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families here, at 58.6%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 9.4% of the total, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
9.4% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Jacobs Well, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Jacobs Well [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315045/jacobs-well/topic/family-households