3.5 ▲ +45.8%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 3.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Dauan Island · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Dauan Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more than the national figure of 14.1%, one-parent families make up 37.2% of households on Dauan Island. This is a high-density living environment where homes are much larger than typical Australian dwellings. Since 2011, the number of people living in each home has grown from 2.4 to 3.5.
3.5
▲ +45.8%
- 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 Dauan Island — higher than 92% of areas.
| Dauan Island | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| 4875, QLD | 3.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes on Dauan Island are crowded, with 3.5 people per home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 2.5. At the same time, 38.7% of people live alone, a figure that has risen by 8.1 percentage points since 2011.
38.7% ▲ +26.4%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Dauan Island, the largest group is 1 person at 35%, followed by 6 or more (26%) and 4 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single parents head 37.2% of families, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. This reflects a sharp increase from 2011, when one-parent families made up only 14.4% of the local total.
37.2% ▲ +158.8%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Dauan Island, Couples with children is the majority at 63%; One-parent families is next at 37%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Dauan Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322033/dauan-island/topic/family-households