2.1 ▼ -25.0%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 4.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mission Beach · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mission Beach
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-person homes have surged in Mission Beach, with the share of people living alone rising 19 percentage points since 2011. This shift has led to smaller households overall, as the typical number of people per home has fallen to 2.1. Today, the area is defined by a high number of couples and solo dwellers.
2.1
▼ -25.0%
- 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 Mission Beach — lower than 71% of areas.
| Mission Beach | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4852, QLD | 2.2 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 30% of people here live alone, a figure well above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home holds just 2.1 people, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 2.5.
29.9% ▲ +166.5%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 29.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mission Beach, the largest group is 2 people at 45%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 3 people (11%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with and without children make up the vast majority of families, with both groups sitting at around 44%. In contrast, one-parent families make up only 10.7%, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
10.7% ▲ +111.8%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mission Beach splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (44%) and Couples without children (44%), with One-parent families at 11%.
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 Mission Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321073/mission-beach/topic/family-households