2.3 ▼ -37.8%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Toolakea · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Toolakea
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than 31% of people live alone in Toolakea, which is well above the national figure. This shift is part of a broader change in the area, where the typical number of people in each home has dropped from 3.7 in 2011 to 2.3 today.
2.3
▼ -37.8%
- 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 Toolakea — lower than 57% of areas.
| Toolakea | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 4818, QLD | 2.8 |
| Queensland | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are slightly smaller than the state and national average, with 2.3 people per dwelling. This trend is driven by a rise in single-person households, which grew by 13 percentage points since 2011 to reach 31.5%.
31.5% ▲ +67.0%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 41.9%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Toolakea, the largest group is 2 people at 44%, followed by 1 person (31%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 21.0% of the local total, a figure well above the Australian average. While this remains much higher than most areas, it has fallen 17 percentage points since 2011.
21.0% ▼ -44.9%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.1%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Toolakea, the largest group is Couples without children at 43%, followed by Couples with children (36%) and One-parent families (21%).
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 Toolakea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322123/toolakea/topic/family-households