2.2 ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Hughenden · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Hughenden
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 47% of families in Hughenden are couples with children, making them the most common household type. However, the area has seen a sharp rise in people living alone, with the typical home now holding fewer people than the national figure.
2.2
▼ -29.0%
- 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 Hughenden — lower than 64% of areas.
| Hughenden | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4821, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A high 38.2% of people live alone in Hughenden, which is far above the national figure of 25.6%. This shift helps explain why the number of people per home has dropped from 3.1 in 2011 to 2.2 today.
38.2% ▲ +43.4%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Hughenden splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (34%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.6% of the community, a figure well above the Queensland average of 15.4%. This is slightly lower than it was in 2011, when the figure was 19.6%.
18.6% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Hughenden, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (33%) and One-parent families (19%).
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 Hughenden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321055/hughenden/topic/family-households