2.3 ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Forest Hill · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Forest Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
One-parent families make up a far higher share of the population in Forest Hill than in the rest of the state. This shift is a major change for the area, with the proportion of single-parent homes rising by 23 percentage points since 2011. While typical homes are slightly smaller than the national average, the community is now shaped by a significant number of diverse family types.
2.3
▲ +4.5%
- 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 Forest Hill — lower than 57% of areas.
| Forest Hill | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4342, QLD | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30% of people here live alone, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. Most homes contain two people (37.5%), and the typical number of people per home is 2.3, a little below the Queensland average.
29.8% ▼ -18.2%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Forest Hill, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 4 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families are very common here, making up 34.8% of all families—a figure far above the national average of 14.1%. This is equal to the proportion of couples without children, while couples with children account for 28.5%.
34.8% ▲ +184.7%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Forest Hill splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (35%) and One-parent families (35%), with Couples with children at 29%.
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 Forest Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322046/forest-hill/topic/family-households