2.0 ▼ -28.6%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 3.7
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Bluff · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Bluff
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the largest group in Bluff, where 42.9% of families fit this description. However, the area has seen a sharp rise in people living alone, which has pushed the typical home size down to just two people.
2.0
▼ -28.6%
- 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 Bluff — lower than 86% of areas.
| Bluff | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4702, QLD | 2.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in the rest of Australia, with 36.6% of households consisting of one person. This reflects a significant shift since 2011, helping to drive the typical number of people per home down to 2.0.
36.6% ▲ +78.6%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Bluff splits fairly evenly between 2 people (42%) and 1 person (37%), with 4 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families now make up 14.3% of the total, a figure that has risen by 8.9 percentage points since 2011. This is roughly in line with the national figure.
14.3% ▲ +166.7%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 43.4%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Bluff splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (41%), with One-parent families at 15%.
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 Bluff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322016/bluff/topic/family-households