1.8 ▼ -35.7%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Karumba · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Karumba
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live alone in Karumba than in most similar areas. This shift has seen the typical home size shrink significantly, with the number of people per home dropping from 2.8 in 2011 to just 1.8 in 2021.
1.8
▼ -35.7%
- 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 Karumba — lower than 99% of areas.
| Karumba | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 4891, QLD | 1.8 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 46% of homes are occupied by one person, a figure far above the national rate of 25.6%. This high number of single-person households means Karumba has some of the lowest occupancy rates in the region, well below the Queensland figure of 2.5 people per home.
45.8% ▲ +137.4%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Karumba, the largest group is 1 person at 45%, followed by 2 people (39%) and 3 people (10%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the biggest group of families at 57.5%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 15.7% of the total, which is about the same as the state average.
15.7% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Karumba, Couples without children is the majority at 57%; Couples with children is next at 26%.
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 Karumba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322067/karumba/topic/family-households