2.0 ▼ -23.1%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Giru · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Giru
How families and households are made up across the area.
A sharp rise in people living alone has reshaped Giru since 2011. This shift has left the area with far fewer people per home than the national figure, with 41.7% of households now consisting of just one person.
2.0
▼ -23.1%
- 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 Giru — lower than 86% of areas.
| Giru | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 4809, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Giru now holds only 2.0 people, which is well below the Queensland figure of 2.5. This decline is driven by a surge in single-person households, which rose 25 percentage points since 2011 to reach 41.7%.
41.7% ▲ +154.2%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2021: 41.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Giru splits fairly evenly between 1 person (41%) and 2 people (38%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 47.0%. Meanwhile, one-parent families have increased by 8.0 percentage points since 2011, though at 13.7% they remain about the same as the national figure.
13.7% ▲ +141.0%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Giru, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (39%) and One-parent families (14%).
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 Giru [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322049/giru/topic/family-households