1.7 ▼ -26.1%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Sapphire · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Sapphire
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over half of all homes in Sapphire are occupied by just one person. This small community has a very high number of single-person households and a much lower number of people per home than the national figure. The typical home is small, with the number of residents per dwelling falling since 2011.
1.7
▼ -26.1%
- 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 Sapphire — lower than 99% of areas.
| Sapphire | 1.7 |
|---|---|
| 4702, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes make up 54.7% of the total, a figure far above the national average. This trend has grown significantly since 2011 and helps explain why the typical home in Sapphire holds only 1.7 people, which is well below the Queensland figure of 2.5.
54.7% ▲ +55.3%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 54.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Sapphire, 1 person is the majority at 54%; 2 people is next at 33%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families are very common here at 26.1%, which is far above the Australian figure of 14.1%. Roughly half of all families are couples without children, and the proportion of single-parent homes has risen since 2011.
26.1% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Sapphire, the largest group is Couples without children at 49%, followed by One-parent families (26%) and Couples with children (24%).
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 Sapphire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321091/sapphire/topic/family-households