4.7 —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.8
- 2021: 4.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Yarrabah · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Yarrabah
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live together in Yarrabah than in most other similar areas. This is a place of large households, where the typical home holds 4.7 people, nearly double the national figure of 2.5. This pattern is driven by a high number of large families and very few people living on their own.
4.7
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- 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 Yarrabah — higher than 99% of areas.
| Yarrabah | 4.7 |
|---|---|
| 4871, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Over a third of all homes in Yarrabah house six or more people, and only 9.9% of residents live alone. This is far below the 25.6% national figure, though the number of people per home has edged down slightly since 2016.
9.9% —
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Yarrabah, the largest group is 6 or more at 34%, followed by 4 people (18%) and 2 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 41.3% of the area, a figure that is far above the Australian average of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 2.8 percentage points since 2016, while couples with children account for 49% of families.
41.3% —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 41.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Yarrabah, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by One-parent families (42%) and Couples without children (6%).
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 Yarrabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315108/yarrabah/topic/family-households