2.0 ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Coconuts · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Coconuts
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people share a home in Coconuts (L) than in most other parts of the country. The area is mostly made up of small households, with the typical home now holding only two people.
2.0
▼ -20.0%
- 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 Coconuts — lower than 86% of areas.
| Coconuts | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4860, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are common here, making up 33.3% of all households, which is well above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This shift explains why the number of people per home has dropped from 2.5 in 2011 to just 2.0 today.
33.3% ▲ +41.0%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Coconuts, the largest group is 2 people at 40%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children are the most common family type at 42.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families make up 13.4% of the mix, which is a little below the state average.
13.4% ▲ +24.7%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Coconuts splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (43%) and Couples with children (38%), with One-parent families at 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 Coconuts [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322028/coconuts/topic/family-households