2.3 ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Burketown · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Burketown
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than a third of all homes in Burketown are occupied by people living alone. This high number of single-person households means the town has a different social makeup than the state average, with smaller living arrangements becoming more common over the last decade.
2.3
▼ -14.8%
- 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 Burketown — lower than 57% of areas.
| Burketown | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4830, QLD | 3.7 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 39% of people here live alone, a figure far above the national average of 25.6% and up 7 points since 2011. Because of this, the typical home in Burketown holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 2.5.
38.7% ▲ +22.2%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Burketown splits fairly evenly between 1 person (39%) and 2 people (34%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group of families at 43%. One-parent families account for 13% of the total, which is a little below the national figure and a drop of 8.8 points since 2011.
13.0% ▼ -40.5%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Burketown, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Burketown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322022/burketown/topic/family-households