1.7 ▼ -37.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lamb Island · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Lamb Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
Almost half of all homes on Lamb Island are occupied by just one person, making it one of the areas with the smallest households in the region. This trend has grown significantly over the last decade, with the typical home now housing far fewer people than the state or national average.
1.7
▼ -37.0%
- 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 Lamb Island — lower than 99% of areas.
| Lamb Island | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 4184, QLD | 1.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 48.9% of residents live alone, a figure that is far above the national average and rose by 33 points since 2011. Consequently, the typical home has only 1.7 people, which is well below the Queensland figure of 2.5.
48.9% ▲ +200.1%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 48.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Lamb Island, 1 person is the majority at 50%; 2 people is next at 39%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 63.5%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 16.2% of the total, which is about the same as the Queensland figure but rose 9.6 points since 2011.
16.2% ▲ +145.2%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lamb Island, Couples without children is the majority at 64%; Couples with children is next at 20%.
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 Lamb Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321066/lamb-island/topic/family-households