2.3 ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dunwich · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Dunwich
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person households have grown by 8.4 percentage points since 2011 in Dunwich (L). This shift means more people are living alone than in most other areas, even as the typical home contains 2.3 people. It is a community where one-parent families are now much more common than the national figure.
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 Dunwich — lower than 57% of areas.
| Dunwich | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4183, QLD | 2.1 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32.7% of people here live alone, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. While the typical home holds 2.3 people, this is slightly lower than the Queensland average of 2.5.
32.7% ▲ +34.8%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Dunwich splits fairly evenly between 2 people (36%) and 1 person (33%), with 4 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.1% of the area, a figure well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This has risen 3.9 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children remain the most common family type at 46%.
21.1% ▲ +22.9%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dunwich, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (22%).
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 Dunwich [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321037/dunwich/topic/family-households