3.6 ▲ +80.0%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 3.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mapoon · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mapoon
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Mapoon (L), where the typical home holds 3.6 people. This is well above the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a community where few people live alone and families tend to be large.
3.6
▲ +80.0%
- 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 Mapoon — higher than 93% of areas.
| Mapoon | 3.6 |
|---|---|
| 4874, QLD | 3.0 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The number of people per home has risen sharply from 2.0 in 2011 to 3.6 today. Only 16.1% of people live alone, which is well below the Queensland figure of 24.7%.
16.1% ▼ -54.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mapoon splits fairly evenly between 5 people (20%) and 2 people (18%), with 1 person at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 34.2% of the total, a figure far above the national average of 14.1%. This is among the highest rates for this type of family seen in similar areas, though it has fallen since 2011.
34.2% ▼ -17.8%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.6%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mapoon, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; One-parent families is next at 35%.
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 Mapoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322076/mapoon/topic/family-households