3.2 ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Erakala · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Erakala
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger-than-average households are the norm in Erakala, where 3.2 people typically share a home. This is well above the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community where most residents live in family groups rather than on their own.
3.2
▲ +10.3%
- 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 Erakala — higher than 89% of areas.
| Erakala | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 4740, QLD | 2.5 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 4.2% of people live alone, which is far below the Australian average of 25.6%. This trend has shifted over the last decade, as the number of people living alone fell 7.0 percentage points since 2011.
4.2% ▼ -62.8%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Erakala splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 4 people (27%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the bulk of the area at 72.1%. One-parent families are much less common here than elsewhere, making up just 5.6% of the total, which is well below the Queensland figure of 15.4%.
5.6% ▼ -62.4%
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Erakala, Couples with children is the majority at 70%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Erakala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322040/erakala/topic/family-households