2.3 ▼ -32.4%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Toogoom · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Toogoom
How families and households are made up across the area.
Toogoom sits around the middle of similar areas for its household and family makeup. The most striking shift is the rise in people living alone, which jumped 16 percentage points since 2011 to reach 23.3% of all homes.
2.3
▼ -32.4%
- 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 Toogoom — lower than 57% of areas.
| Toogoom | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4655, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes here hold 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. Almost half of all households consist of two people, though the number of single-person homes has grown significantly since 2011.
23.3% ▲ +199.6%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Toogoom, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 44.8%, while one-parent families account for 15.1%. This last figure is a little above the Australian average and has risen 14 percentage points over the last decade.
15.1% ▲ +964.8%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Toogoom, the largest group is Couples without children at 45%, followed by Couples with children (39%) and One-parent families (15%).
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 Toogoom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315094/toogoom/topic/family-households