1.6 ▼ -11.1%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 1.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Arcadia Bay · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Arcadia Bay
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all homes in Arcadia Bay (L) are occupied by just one person. This makes it an area where single-person households are far more common than in the rest of the state or country. Most residents live in very small households, contributing to a typical home size that is well below the national figure.
1.6
▼ -11.1%
- 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 Arcadia Bay — lower than 99% of areas.
| Arcadia Bay | 1.6 |
|---|---|
| 4819, QLD | 1.9 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone make up 46.8% of households, a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home here has only 1.6 people, which is well below the Queensland figure of 2.5.
46.8% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 47.2%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Arcadia Bay, 1 person is the majority at 51%; 2 people is next at 44%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 64.1%. One-parent families account for 10.7% of the total, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%, though this proportion has risen since 2011.
10.7% ▲ +51.8%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Arcadia Bay, Couples without children is the majority at 64%; Couples with children is next at 26%.
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 Arcadia Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322006/arcadia-bay/topic/family-households