2.2 ▼ -21.4%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Barcaldine · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Barcaldine
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Barcaldine than in most other similar areas. This trend has grown quickly, with a significant jump in single-person households since 2011. As a result, the typical home here holds fewer people than those in the rest of Queensland or Australia.
2.2
▼ -21.4%
- 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 Barcaldine — lower than 64% of areas.
| Barcaldine | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4725, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 37.2% of people live alone, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This rise in single-person homes helps explain why the typical home now holds only 2.2 people, down from 2.8 in 2011.
37.2% ▲ +88.6%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Barcaldine splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 48.2% of families, while one-parent families account for 15.9%. This last figure is a little above the national average and has risen by 3 points since 2011.
15.9% ▲ +23.4%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Barcaldine, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Barcaldine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321009/barcaldine/topic/family-households