1.8 ▼ -48.6%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Rubyvale · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Rubyvale
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Rubyvale are occupied by just one person. This has created a shift toward much smaller households, where the typical home now holds only 1.8 people.
1.8
▼ -48.6%
- 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 Rubyvale — lower than 99% of areas.
| Rubyvale | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 4702, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households have jumped to 47.4%, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This trend explains why the number of people per home has fallen sharply from 3.5 in 2011 to 1.8 today.
47.4% ▲ +197.1%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 47.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Rubyvale, the largest group is 1 person at 48%, followed by 2 people (40%) and 3 people (8%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 54.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families now account for 12% of the total, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
12.0% ▼ -50.6%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Rubyvale, Couples without children is the majority at 54%; Couples with children is next at 32%.
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 Rubyvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321089/rubyvale/topic/family-households