2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Miriam Vale · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Miriam Vale
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher share of people live alone in Miriam Vale compared to the rest of Queensland. This trend helps explain why the area has a lower typical household size than the state average. While many homes house couples, the number of single-person households has grown significantly over the last decade.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Miriam Vale — lower than 71% of areas.
| Miriam Vale | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4677, QLD | 2.3 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 35.8% of residents live alone, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. Because of this, the typical home in Miriam Vale holds just 2.1 people, which is a little below the national average of 2.5.
35.8% ▲ +27.9%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Miriam Vale splits fairly evenly between 2 people (40%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.5% of the community, a figure that is well above the Australian average and has risen by 8.2 percentage points since 2011. Most other families are couples, with 41.3% having children and 39.0% without.
17.5% ▲ +88.4%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Miriam Vale splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (41%) and Couples without children (39%), with One-parent families at 17%.
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 Miriam Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322082/miriam-vale/topic/family-households