2.1 ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Finch Hatton · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Finch Hatton
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller households are becoming the norm in Finch Hatton (L), where the typical home now holds just 2.1 people. This shift is driven by a sharp rise in people living on their own, with over a third of all households now consisting of a single person.
2.1
▼ -27.6%
- 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 Finch Hatton — lower than 71% of areas.
| Finch Hatton | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4756, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is far more common here than in the rest of Queensland or Australia, with 35.7% of households being single-person homes. This helps explain why the typical home size has dropped from 2.9 people in 2011 to 2.1 today.
35.7% ▲ +90.5%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Finch Hatton, the largest group is 2 people at 43%, followed by 1 person (37%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 54.2%, though one-parent families are well below the state average at 11.6%. This figure has fallen significantly since 2011, when it was 27.5%.
11.6% ▼ -57.8%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Finch Hatton, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Finch Hatton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322044/finch-hatton/topic/family-households