2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alpha · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Alpha
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of people live by themselves in Alpha (L), creating a community with very small households. This makes the area stand out for its high number of single-person homes compared to the rest of the state.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Alpha — lower than 86% of areas.
| Alpha | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4724, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home here has just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This reflects a trend toward smaller households, with 39.8% of residents living alone—a figure that rose 6 points since 2011.
39.8% ▲ +17.7%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Alpha splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.1% of the community, which is well above the Australian average of 14.1%. This is a significant shift for the area, as the proportion of single-parent homes rose 14 points since 2011.
20.1% ▲ +204.3%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alpha, the largest group is Couples with children at 46%, followed by Couples without children (34%) and One-parent families (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 Alpha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322002/alpha/topic/family-households