2.2 → 0.0%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Daintree · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Daintree
How families and households are made up across the area.
A very high proportion of people living alone defines Daintree (L), where 42.9% of households are single-person homes. This makes it stand out compared to most similar areas. While the typical home is smaller than the national figure, there has been a notable rise in one-parent families.
2.2
→ 0.0%
- 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 Daintree — lower than 64% of areas.
| Daintree | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 4873, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 42.9% of people here live alone, a figure far above the Queensland and Australian averages. Because so many live by themselves, the typical home has only 2.2 people, which is lower than most areas.
42.9% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 42.6%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Daintree, the largest group is 1 person at 37%, followed by 2 people (20%) and 3 people (12%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.4% of the total, which is much higher than most areas and rose by 8.9 points since 2011. This is far above the national figure of 14.1%.
25.4% ▲ +53.7%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Daintree splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (38%) and Couples with children (37%), with One-parent families at 25%.
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 Daintree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322032/daintree/topic/family-households