2.1 ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tambo · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Tambo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of families in Tambo are couples with children, matching the share of couples without children. The area has seen a significant shift toward smaller living arrangements, with the number of people living alone jumping 24 points since 2011.
2.1
▼ -27.6%
- 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 Tambo — lower than 71% of areas.
| Tambo | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 4478, QLD | 2.4 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 36.7% of people live alone, which is far above the Queensland figure of 24.7%. This trend helps explain why the typical home in Tambo now holds only 2.1 people, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
36.7% ▲ +184.7%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tambo splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (36%), with 3 people at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 15% of the total, which is about the same as the national figure. This proportion has risen by 7.2 percentage points over the last ten years.
15.0% ▲ +93.0%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Tambo splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (42%) and Couples without children (42%), with One-parent families at 16%.
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 Tambo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322115/tambo/topic/family-households